Lycium pallidum
pale desert-thorn, pale wolfberry, rabbit thorn
blade spatulate to oblanceolate, 10–50 × 3–25 mm, glaucous, surfaces glabrous.
2–3-flowered fascicles or solitary flowers.
4–16 mm.
5-merous;
calyx cupulate to campanulate, 2.5–8 mm, lobe lengths 1–2 times tube;
corolla greenish white to lavender, often with purple veins, funnelform, (8–)12–25 mm, lobes 3–5 mm;
stamens exserted.
red, ovoid, 10 mm, glaucous, fleshy, apex sometimes hard.
4–50.
= 24.
Lycium pallidum
Lycium pallidum is known from throughout Arizona and New Mexico, southeastern California, southern Colorado, south-central Nevada (Nye County), western Oklahoma (Cimarron County), western Texas, southern Utah, and northeastern Mexico. Although the fruits of L. pallidum are fleshy, they occasionally have a hardened apex. The range of L. pallidum overlaps with those of several other Lycium species; however, its large, glaucous leaves and long, funnelform flowers are very distinctive.
Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
1. Seeds 20–50; corollas 12–25 mm. | var. pallidum |
1. Seeds 4–8; corollas (8–)12–20 mm. | var. oligospermum |
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