Lycium vimineum
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Lycium vimineum is a plant species from the genus of the buckthorn ( Lycium ) inthe nightshade family (Solanaceae).
description
Lycium vimineum is an upright shrub that reaches heights of 1 to 4 m. The leaves are hairless or hairy only very finely downy. They become 3 to 50 mm long and 1 to 7 mm wide.
The flowers are hermaphroditic and usually four-fold, rarely five-fold. The calyx is cup-shaped and hairless. The calyx tube is 1.8 to 2.5 mm long and covered with 0.4 to 1.5 mm long calyx lobes. The crown is colored white and funnel-shaped. The corolla tube becomes 5 to 7 mm long, the corolla lobes 2 to 3 mm. The stamens are hairy tomentose at the base.
The fruit is a red, spherical berry that is 4 to 5 mm long and wide. Seven to twelve seeds are formed per carpel .
Occurrence
The species is widespread in South America and occurs there in Argentina and Uruguay .
Systematics
Molecular biological studies place the species together with Lycium californicum and Lycium nodosum in a clearly supported clade , Lycium californicum forms a sister clade to the other two species.
proof
Individual evidence
- ^ Rachel A. Levin and Jill S. Miller: Relationships within Tribe Lycieae (Solanaceae): Paraphyly of Lycium and multiple Origins of Gender Dimorphism . In: American Journal of Botany , Volume 92, Number 12, 2005. pp. 2044-2053.
- ^ 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. ISBN 978-9066054271
Main evidence
- JS Miller and RA Levin: Lycium vimineum . In: Project Lycieae