Lycium tenue
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Tenue Lycium is a plant type from the genus of Lycium ( Lycium ) in the family of the nightshade family (Solanaceae).
description
Lycium tenue is a rigid, prickly shrub . Its leaves are slightly succulent and hairless. They become 10 to 13 mm long and 1 to 2 mm wide.
The flowers are hermaphroditic and five-fold. The calyx is tubular and hairless. The calyx tube is 4 to 5 mm long and has about 1 mm long calyx tips. The crown is hemispherical and curved back. It is creamy white in color, the corolla lobes are purple. The corolla tube is 6 to 7 mm long, the corolla lobes about 3 mm. The base of the stamens is densely tomentose.
The fruit is a red, egg-shaped to elliptical berry with a length of 5 to 7 mm and a width of 4 mm.
Occurrence
The species is widespread on the African continent and occurs there in South Africa in the Western Cape Province .
Systematics
Molecular biological studies place the species in a clade with various species native to Africa and the only Australian species. One clade that was strongly supported by the study consists of Lycium tenue , this Australian species Lycium australe and the species Lycium gariepense that occurs in Namibia .
supporting documents
- JS Miller and RA Levin: Lycium tenue . In: Project Lycieae
- Rachel A. Levin et al .: Evolutionary Relationships in Tribe Lycieae (Solanaceae) . In: DM Spooner, L. Bohs, J. Giovannoni, RG Olmstead and D. Shibata (eds.): Solanaceae VI: Genomics meets biodiversity. Proceedings of the Sixth International Solanaceae Conference , ISHS Acta Horticulturae 745, June 2007. pp. 225-239. ISBN 978-9066054271 .