Lycium eenii
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Leaves and flowers
02 Apr 2015
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Leaves and flower
02 Apr 2015
| Family: | Solanaceae |
| Full name: | Lycium eenii S.Moore |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Breëblaarkriedoring |
| English common name(s): | Broad-leaved honey-thorn, Highland honey-thorn |
| Synonym(s): | Lycium lancifolium Dammer Lycium trothae Dammer |
| Status: | Endemic |
| Description: | Rigid bushy shrub. STEMS thorny; young stems creamy to whitish with thorns up to 30 mm long. LEAVES simple, obovate, ovate or elliptic; both surfaces mostly bright yellowish-green; apex tapering to a point. FLOWERS solitary, trumpet-shaped, greenish-white with purple veins and spreading purple lobes; tube 10–18 mm long; stamens and styles not or hardly protruding beyond the flower. FRUIT a small, ovate, red berry. (from Tree Atlas of Namibia) Habit: rigid, bushy, sometimes scandent. Shrub height: 1-2 m, rarely 4 m, Leaf Pubescence: glabrous, Leaf Length: 20-30 mm, Leaf Width: 8-12 mm, Calyx Shape: tubular, Calyx Tube Length: 6-7 mm, Calyx Lobe Length: 1-2 mm, Corolla Color: greenish-white with purple veins and lobes, Flower Shape: sub-orbicular, spreading, Corolla Tube Length: 12-15 mm, Corolla Lobe Length: 2.5-3 mm, Merosity: 5, Filament Pubescence: lower quarter of filament sparsely pilose, Sexuality: hermaphroditic, Fruit Type: berry, Fruit Shape: ovate, Fruit Color: red, Fruit length: 7-8 mm, Fruit width: 4-5 mm (from https://jsmiller.people.amherst.edu/LycieaeWeb/Lycium.eenii.html) |
| Link(s) |
African Plant Database
JSTOR Plant Science Kew Herbarium Catalogue BGBM Berlin-Dahlem - Virtual Herbarium Züricher Herbarien iNaturalist (Namibia / Alex Dreyer) iNaturalist (Namibia) iNaturalist (southern Africa) Flora of Zimbabwe Fleurs de notre Terre - Galerie Namibie Tree Atlas of Namibia |
| Content last updated: | 18 Apr 2024 |
