Lycium bosciifolium
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Leaves and spine
13 Jun 2008
| Family: | Solanaceae |
| Full name: | Lycium bosciifolium Schinz |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Slapkriedoring, Wolfdoring, Limpopo-kriedoring |
| English common name(s): | Limpopo honey-thorn |
| Synonym(s): | Lycium dunaloides Dammer Lycium emarginatum Dammer Lycium namaquense Dammer Lycium pauciflorum Dammer Lycium schaeferi Dammer Lycium squarrosum Dammer |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Untidy shrub. STEMS lax, arched; young stems with slender thorns up to 10 mm long. LEAVES simple, semisucculent to succulent, elongate-elliptic to narrowly obovate, 10–50 x 3–11 mm; both surfaces bright green to yellowish-green. FLOWERS solitary, trumpet-shaped; dirty white to greenish-cream; lobes dark violet, spreading; corolla tube longer than 10 mm, stamens and styles clearly protruding from the flower; calyx shorter than half the length of the tube. FRUIT a small, glossy red to black ovoid berry. (from Tree Atlas of Namibia) |
| Link(s) |
African Plant Database
JSTOR Plant Science Kew Herbarium Catalogue BGBM Berlin-Dahlem - Virtual Herbarium Züricher Herbarien iSpot: 163770 Flora of Zimbabwe Fleurs de notre Terre - Galerie Namibie Tree Atlas of Namibia |
| Content last updated: | 13 Oct 2012 |
