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Common Names
Common Names in English:
H Hawaii Desert-Thorn, Hawai'i Desert-Thorn
Description
Family Solanaceae
Herbs, shrubs
, small trees
, or climbers
. Stems sometimes prickly, rarely thorny; hairs
simple
, branched, or stellate
, sometimes glandular
. Leaves alternate, solitary or paired
, simple or pinnately compound
, without stipules; leaf blade
entire
, dentate
, lobed
, or divided
. Inflorescences terminal
, overtopped by continuing axes, appearing axillary
, extra-axillary
, or leaf opposed, often apparently umbellate
, racemose, paniculate
, clustered, or solitary flowers, rarely true cymes, sometimes bracteate
. Flowers mostly bisexual
, usually regular, 5-merous, rarely 4- or 6-9-merous. Calyx mostly lobed. Petals united
. Stamens as many as corolla lobes
and alternate with them, inserted
within corolla, all alike or 1 or more reduced; anthers
dehiscing longitudinally or by apical pores
. Ovary 2-5-locular; placentation mostly axile
; ovules usually numerous
. Style
1. Fruiting calyx often becoming enlarged, mostly persistent
. Fruit a berry or capsule. Seeds with copious
endosperm; embryo mostly curved
.
About 95 genera with 2300 species: best represented in western tropical
America, widespread in temperate
and tropical regions
; 20 genera (ten introduced
) and 101 species in China.
Some species of Solanaceae are known in China only by plants
cultivated in ornamental
or specialty gardens: Atropa belladonna Linnaeus, Cyphomandra betacea (Cavanilles) Sendtner, Brugmansia suaveolens (Willdenow) Berchtold & Presl, Nicotiana alata Link & Otto, and Solanum jasminoides Paxton.Zhi-Yun Zhang, Anmin Lu & William G. D'Arcy "Solanaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 300. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
Genus Lycium
Shrubs
, often armed
with thorns
, pubescent
with simple
hairs
. Leaves usually fasciculate on short shoots
, petiolate
or subsessile
; leaf blade
small, plane
or linear-cylindric, entire
. Inflorescences solitary or fasciculate axillary flowers; peduncle
absent. Flowers pedicellate
. Calyx campanulate
, 2- or 5-dentate or -lobed. Corolla funnelform
or campanulate; tube
short, limb usually (4- or) 5-lobed, enlarged at throat
. Stamens inserted
high in corolla tube, included
or exserted; anthers
oblong-elliptic, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary 2-locular; ovules 1 to many. Style
slender. Berry red, orange, yellow, or black, globose
, ovoid
, or oblong
, fleshy
or juicy; fruiting calyx slightly enlarged. Seeds numerous
or few, compressed
, pitted
.
About 80 species: South America, S Africa, a few in temperate
Europe and Asia; seven species in China."Lycium". in Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 301. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
Physical Description
Habit: Shrub
Habitat
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 4,028 meters (0 to 13,215 feet).Mean = 92.900 meters (304.790 feet), Standard Deviation = 258.110 based on 1,229 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre.
Biology
Reproduction
Duration: Perennial
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
)
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
)
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
)
- Sinnott, 1935 Ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
)
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
)
- Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
)
- Brongniart, 1843
- Dicotyledons
- Subclass:
Lamiidae
(
)
- Takhtajan Ex Reveal, 1992
- Superorder:
Solananae
(
)
- R. Dahlgren Ex Reveal, 1992
- Order:
Solanales
(
)
- Dumortier, 1829
- Family:
Solanaceae
(
)
- Adans., 1763, Nom. Cons.
- Potato Family
- Subfamily:
Solanoideae
(
)
- Subfamily:
Solanoideae
(
- Family:
Solanaceae
(
- Order:
Solanales
(
- Superorder:
Solananae
(
- Subclass:
Lamiidae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Unambiguous Synonyms
- Lycium carolinianum sandwicense (Gray) C. L. Hitchc.
- Lycium carolinianum var. sandwicense (Gray) C.L. Hitchc.
Notes
Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000
Similar Species
Members of the genus Lycium
There are approximately 534 species in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:
L. abeliaeflorum · L. acanthocladium · L. aciculare · L. acnistoides · L. acutifolium · L. afrum · L. aggregatum · L. albiflorum · L. ameghinoi · L. americanum var. chrysocarpum · L. amoenum · L. anatolicum · L. andersonii (Anderson Boxthorn) · L. andersonii f. deserticola (Anderson Boxthorn) · L. andersonii f. deserticolum · L. andersonii var. andersonii · L. andersonii var. andersonii Gray (Anderson Wolfberry) · L. andersonii var. deserticola · L. andersonii var. deserticola (C.L.Hitchc.) C.L.Hitchc. ex Munz (Desert Anderson Wolfberry) · L. andersonii var. pubescens · L. andersonii var. wrightii (Anderson Boxthorn) · L. andersonii var. wrightii Gray (Water Jacket) · L. angustifolium · L. apiculatum · L. arabicum · L. arborescens · L. arenicola · L. arenicolum · L. argentino-cestroides · L. argentino-elongatum · L. argentinum · L. argentinum var. umbrosum · L. armatum · L. arochae · L. aschersonii · L. athium · L. australe · L. austrinum · L. bachmannii · L. Barbarium 'Nativehart' · L. barbarum (Common Matrimony Vine) · L. barbarum var. auranticarpum · L. barbatum · L. barbinodum · L. berberidoides · L. berberioides var. berberioides · L. berlandieri (Berlandier Wolf-Berry) · L. berlandieri Dunal var. berlandieri Dunal · L. berlandieri Dunal var. longistylum C.L.Hitchc. (Berlandier Wolfberry) · L. berlandieri Dunal var. parviflorum (Gray) Terracc. (Berlandier's Wolfberry) · L. berlandieri f. parviflorum · L. berlandieri subvar. brachyanthum · L. berlandieri subvar. pubescens · L. berlandieri subvar. richii · L. berlandieri subvar. wrightii · L. berlandieri var. andersonii · L. berlandieri var. barbinodum · L. berlandieri var. berlandieri · L. berlandieri var. brevipes · L. berlandieri var. longiflorum · L. berlandieri var. longistylum · L. berlandieri var. miersii · L. berlandieri var. palmeri · L. berlandieri var. parviflorum (Berlandiers Wolfberry) · L. berlandieri var. peninsulare · L. berlandieri var. schaffneri · L. biesei · L. boerhaviaefolium · L. bosciifolium · L. brachanthum · L. brachyanthum · L. breanum · L. brevipes var. Brevipes (Desert-Thorn) · L. brevistylum · L. caespitosum · L. californicum (California Desert-Thorn) · L. californicum subsp. carinatum · L. californicum var. arizonicum · L. californicum var. interior · L. calpiche · L. campanulatum · L. canescens · L. canum · L. capense · L. capillare · L. capsulare · L. carinatum · L. carnosum · L. carolinianum (Carolina Desert-Thorn) · L. carolinianum f. hassei · L. carolinianum f. jacquiniana · L. carolinianum var. arizonicum · L. carolinianum var. californicum · L. carolinianum var. carolinianum · L. carolinianum var. carolinianum Walt. (Carolina Desert-Thorn) · L. carolinianum var. cedrocense · L. carolinianum var. gaumeri · L. carolinianum var. quadrifidum · L. carolinianum var. quadrifidum (Dunal) C.L.Hitchc. (Carolina Desert-Thorn) · L. caroliniaum var. arizonicum
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Notes
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Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 02, 2008:
- Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Bishop Museum Natural History Specimen Data
- USDA PLANTS, USDA PLANTS Database
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 8296271
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-30551
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13746401
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:816615-1
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 30551
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 816615-1
- Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: PDSOL0G0H0
- U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: LYCAS2
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 48605
