Lycium eenii
| Family: | Solanaceae |
| Full name: | Lycium eenii S.Moore |
| Location: | Kyffhäuser (2416AD + 2416CB) |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Breeblaarkriedoring |
| English common name(s): | Broad-leaved honey-thorn, Highland honey-thorn |
| Synonym(s): | Lycium lancifolium Dammer Lycium trothae Dammer |
| Status: | Endemic |
| Description: | Rigid bushy shrub. STEMS thorny; young stems creamy to whitish with thorns up to 30 mm long. LEAVES simple, obovate, ovate or elliptic; both surfaces mostly bright yellowish-green; apex tapering to a point. FLOWERS solitary, trumpet-shaped, greenish-white with purple veins and spreading purple lobes; tube 10–18 mm long; stamens and styles not or hardly protruding beyond the flower. FRUIT a small, ovate, red berry. (from Tree Atlas of Namibia) |
| 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: | 22 Mar 2008 |
| Camera make: | Canon |
| Camera model: | PowerShot A700 |
| Lens aperture: | f/4.0 |
| Shutter speed: | 1/200 s |
| ISO speed: | - |
| Content last updated: | 01 Jun 2020 |
