Lycium yunnanense K.Z.Kuang & A.M.Lu

Species

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Characteristics

Shrubs cespitose, erect, ca. 50 cm tall. Branchlets yellow-brown, thorny at apex. Leaves solitary on long shoots, sometimes on thorns or fasciculate on tubercular short shoots; petiole short; leaf blade narrowly ovate to lanceolate, 8-15 × 2-3 cm, base narrowly cuneate, apex acute. Inflorescences solitary flowers clustered with leaves. Pedicel 4-6 mm. Calyx campanulate, ca. 2 mm, usually 3-lobed or 3-or 4-dentate, tomentose at apex. Corolla pale blue-purple, purple, or occasionally white, funnelform, 5-7 mm; tube 3-4 mm; lobes 2-3 mm, glabrescent. Stamens inserted below middle of corolla tube, distinctly longer than corolla; filaments 5-7 mm, exserted, with villous hairs slightly above base, subglabrous on inner wall of corolla tube; anthers ca. 0.8 mm. Style 7-8 mm, exserted. Berry globose, ca. 4 mm in diam., yellow-red when ripe, with an obvious longitudinal furrow on drying. Seeds ca. 20, pale yellow, orbicular, ca. 1 mm in diam., pitted. Fl. Sep-Nov, fr. Oct-Feb.
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A shrub. It grows 50 cm tall. The small branches are yellow brown. They are thorny at the tip. The leaves occur singly on long shoots. They are narrowly oval and 8-15 cm long by 2-3 cm wide. The base is wedge shaped. The flowering shoots occur singly and there are several flowers clustered with leaves. The fruit is a round berry 4 mm across. They are yellow to red when ripe.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.5
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Environment

It is a tropical plant. In Yunnan.
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Usage

The young stem is used as a potherb.
Uses potherb
Edible stems
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Cultivation

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Distribution

Lycium yunnanense world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:816680-1
WFO ID wfo-0001023278
COL ID 3WKRS
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Synonyms

Lycium yunnanense