EcoFlora - Lycium

Lycium
Family: Solanaceae Max Licher	VPAP Gleason & Cronquist Resources CANOTIA 5(1) PLANT: Shrubs or small trees, usually thorny. LEAVES: alternate, simple, usually in fascicles, more or less succulent. FLOWERS: in leaf axils, solitary or in groups of 2-6, pedicellate; calyx tubular to campanulate, generally ruptured by growing fruit, sometimes slightly accrescent, 2-6-lobed, the lobes deltate to linear or ovate; corolla white to greenish (sometimes tinged with lavender) to purple, tubular to funnelform or narrowly campanulate, with 4-6 spreading or reflexed lobes; stamens 4-6, included or exserted; filaments filiform, subequal or unequal, adnate to corolla tube proximally, often pubescent near base of free portion, sometimes enlarged and glandular at the base; anthers oval, dorsifixed, longitudinally dehiscent; style slender; stigma shortly 2-lobed; ovary 2-loculed, the locules with 1 to many ovules. FRUITS: berries (sometimes with hardened endocarps and thus drupe-like), fleshy to dry; seeds 2-many, flattened, minutely pitted, sometimes enclosed in a hardened endocarp. NOTES: ca. 80-90 (10 in AZ) species in tropical and subtropical regions of the world (Hitchcock 1932 & 1981, Chiang-Cabrera 1981). Species of Lycium seem to present various degrees of dioecy and sometimes have quite different forms of flowers on different plants (e.g., pin and thrum flowers on different individuals in L. exsertum and L. fremontii; Miller & Venable 2000). Lycium californicum has been found to have diploid populations with hermaphroditic flowers and tetraploid populations with sexually dimorphic flowers (Yeung et al. 2005). The fruits of Lycium are often edible and have been widely used by Native Americans and others in the Southwest (Hodgson 2001). REFERENCES: Windham, M.D. And G. Yatskievych. 2009. Vascular Plants of Arizona: Isoëtaceae. CANOTIA 5 (1): 27-29, 2009. Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada Cal 4-5-lobed, campanulate to tubular, ruptured by the growing fr; cor tubular to funnelform, 4-5-lobed; anthers longitudinally dehiscent, much shorter than the slender filaments; fr a fleshy or dry berry; seeds 2-many, somewhat compressed, with strongly curved embryo; shrubs or small trees, usually thorny, with entire or minutely toothed, often fascicled lvs, the fls mostly 1-4 in the axils. 100, widespread. Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp. ©The New York Botanical Garden. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Species within checklist: ASU Poly - ABS 207 \|\| << 1 - 50 taxa >> Lycium acutifolium Map not Available Lycium afrum Map not Available Lycium ameghinoi Map not Available Lycium americanum Map not Available Lycium andersonii Map not Available Lycium andersonii x brevipes Media not available Map not Available Lycium arenicolum Media not available Map not Available Lycium arochae $Media resource of Lycium arochae$ Map not Available Lycium australe Map not Available Lycium barbarum Map not Available Lycium berberioides Map not Available Lycium berlandieri Map not Available Lycium boerhaaviifolium Map not Available Lycium bosciifolium Media not available Map not Available Lycium californicum Map not Available Lycium carinatum Map not Available Lycium carolinianum Map not Available Lycium cestroides Map not Available Lycium chilense Map not Available Lycium chinense Map not Available Lycium cinereum Map not Available Lycium cooperi Map not Available Lycium cuneatum Map not Available Lycium dasystemum Media not available Map not Available Lycium decumbens Media not available Map not Available Lycium densifolium Map not Available Lycium depressum Map not Available Lycium dispermum Media not available Map not Available Lycium eenii Media not available Map not Available Lycium elongatum Media not available Map not Available Lycium europaeum Map not Available Lycium exsertum Map not Available Lycium ferocissimum Map not Available Lycium ferrocissimum Media not available Map not Available Lycium flexicaule Map not Available Lycium fremontii Map not Available Lycium geniculatum Map not Available Lycium gilliesianum Media not available Map not Available Lycium glomeratum Map not Available Lycium gracilipes Map not Available Lycium hassei Map not Available Lycium horridum Map not Available Lycium infaustum Map not Available Lycium intricatum Media not available Map not Available Lycium leiospermum Map not Available Lycium macrodon Map not Available Lycium martii Map not Available Lycium mascarenense Media not available Map not Available Lycium megacarpum Map not Available Lycium minutifolium Map not Available