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Lycium tenue

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Name

Identification
Lycium acutifolium Dunal [family SOLANACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Data not digitized, Lycium tenue Willd. [family SOLANACEAE ] Verified by Data not digitized,
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Flora

Entry for LYCIUM tenue Willd. [family SOLANACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 87, (1904) Author: By C. H. WRIGHT.
Names
LYCIUM tenue Willd. [family SOLANACEAE], Enum. Hort. Berol. i. 245;—Dunal in DC. Prod. xiii. i. 515; Drège, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 145; Miers in Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. xiv. (1854) 19, and Ill. S. Amer. Pl. t. 67, fig. A.; O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. iii. 222.
Information
a very much-branched shrub; branches flexuose, divaricate, with ridges decurrent from the nodes, dark grey; branchlets spiny, slender; leaves linear or very narrowly oblanceolate, tapering towards both ends, 4 lin. long, 1/4– 1/2 lin. broad, rather fleshy; flowers solitary; calyx tubular, 1 1/2 lin. long; teeth 5, subequal, ciliate, obtuse; corolla funnel-shaped; tube 3 lin. long; lobes 5, erect, ovate, obtuse, smooth; stamens inserted just below the middle of the corolla-tube, 2 much exserted, 1 reaching the throat, 2 included; filaments with a globose bunch of hairs just above their insertion; ovary conical, surrounded at the base by an annular toothed disk; berry ovoid-elliptic, apiculate. null
Range
The variety also occurs in Mauritius.
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Graaff Reinet Div.; near Graaff Reinet, 2600 ft., Bolus, 776!COAST REGION Var. β: Uitenhage Div.; in clayey soil, Krauss (ex Dunal).EASTERN REGION Transkei; between Gekau River and Bashee River, 1000–2000 ft., Drège!KALAHARI REGION Griqualand West; Modder River Station, Kuntze.SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Schlechtendal, Boivin, and Verreaux (ex Dunal).

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