Flora of North America species comparison

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Lycium berlandieri

Berlandier wolfberry, Berlandier's wolfberry
Habit Shrubs erect, 0.7–2.5 m; bark tan to gray to reddish or almost black; stems glabrous or pubescent.
Leaves

blade linear to spatulate, 1.5–15 × 1–4.5 mm, surfaces glabrous.
Inflorescences

2–3-flowered fascicles or solitary flowers.
Pedicels

3–20 mm.
Flowers

4–5-merous;

calyx cupulate, 1–3 mm, lobe lengths 0.3 times tube;

corolla white to pale lavender, tubular to funnelform, 4–9 mm, lobe lengths 0.17–0.3 times tube;

stamens included to exserted.
Berries

orange to red, globose, 5 mm, fleshy.
Seeds

50+.
2n

= 24.

Lycium berlandieri
Phenology Flowering Jul–Sep.
Habitat Desert washes, rocky slopes, flats (Sonoran and Chihuahuan deserts).
Elevation 300–900 m. (1000–3000 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; NM; OK; TX; Mexico (Baja California Sur, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Hidalgo, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas)
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Discussion

Within the flora area, Lycium berlandieri occurs in Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas; it has been reported from western Oklahoma (Harmon and Jackson counties).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 14.
Parent taxa Solanaceae > Lycium
Sibling taxa
L. andersonii, L. barbarum, L. brevipes, L. californicum, L. carolinianum, L. chinense, L. cooperi, L. exsertum, L. ferocissimum, L. fremontii, L. macrodon, L. pallidum, L. parishii, L. puberulum, L. shockleyi, L. texanum, L. torreyi
Synonyms L. berlandieri var. longistylum, L. berlandieri var. parviflorum, L. berlandieri var. peninsulare
Name authority Dunal in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle: Prodr. 13(1): 520. (1852)
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