Lycium bosciifolium
| Family: | Solanaceae |
| Full name: | Lycium bosciifolium Schinz |
| Location: | Kyffhäuser (2416AD + 2416CB) |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Slapkriedoring, Wolfdoring, Limpopo-kriedoring |
| English common name(s): | Limpopo honey-thorn |
| Synonym(s): | Lycium dunaloides Dammer Lycium emarginatum Dammer Lycium namaquense Dammer Lycium pauciflorum Dammer Lycium schaeferi Dammer Lycium squarrosum Dammer |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Untidy shrub. STEMS lax, arched; young stems with slender thorns up to 10 mm long. LEAVES simple, semisucculent to succulent, elongate-elliptic to narrowly obovate, 10–50 x 3–11 mm; both surfaces bright green to yellowish-green. FLOWERS solitary, trumpet-shaped; dirty white to greenish-cream; lobes dark violet, spreading; corolla tube longer than 10 mm, stamens and styles clearly protruding from the flower; calyx shorter than half the length of the tube. FRUIT a small, glossy red to black ovoid berry. (from Tree Atlas of Namibia) Shrub, up to 3m tall, thorny stems, small green lance-shaped hairless leaves, long dirty white to greenish flowers with dark violet lobes, the fruit is a glossy, purplish berry. (from https://tsammalex.clld.org/parameters/lyciumbosciifolium) |
| 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 |
| Photographer: | AA Dreyer |
| Date of photograph: | 13 Dec 2008 |
| Camera make: | Canon |
| Camera model: | PowerShot A700 |
| Lens aperture: | f/2.8 |
| Shutter speed: | 1/50 s |
| ISO speed: | - |
| Content last updated: | 01 Jun 2020 |
