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Lycium sandwicense

(H Hawaii Desert-Thorn)

Overview

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Vulnerable

Threat status

Common Names

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Common Names in English:

H Hawaii Desert-Thorn, Hawai'i Desert-Thorn

Description

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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

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Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Taxonomy

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Unambiguous Synonyms

  1. Lycium carolinianum sandwicense (Gray) C. L. Hitchc.
  2. Lycium carolinianum var. sandwicense (Gray) C.L. Hitchc.

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000

Similar Species

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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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Contributors

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 02, 2008:

Identifiers

Footnotes

Last Revised: 2008-11-03