View source for Lycium pallidum

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|accepted_name=Lycium pallidum
|accepted_authority=Miers
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser.
|place=2, 14: 131. 1854
|year=1854
}}
|common_names=Pale wolfberry
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|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Solanaceae;Lycium;Lycium pallidum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Solanaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Lycium]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Lycium pallidum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 14
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>usually erect, sometimes prostrate, 1–2.5 m; bark yellowish, gray to reddish, or black; stems glabrous or sparsely puberulent. <b>Leaves</b>: blade spatulate to oblanceolate, 10–50 × 3–25 mm, glaucous, surfaces glabrous. <b>Inflorescences</b> 2–3-flowered fascicles or solitary flowers. <b>Pedicels</b> 4–16 mm. <b>Flowers</b> 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. <b>Berries</b> red, ovoid, 10 mm, glaucous, fleshy, apex sometimes hard. <b>Seeds</b> 4–50. <b>2n</b> = 24.</span><!--

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|distribution=sw United States;Mexico.
|discussion=<p>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.</p><!--
--><p>Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).</p>
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==Key==
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|1
|Seeds 20–50; corollas 12–25 mm.
|[[Lycium pallidum var. pallidum|Lycium pallidum var. pallidum]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Seeds 4–8; corollas (8–)12–20 mm.
|[[Lycium pallidum var. oligospermum|Lycium pallidum var. oligospermum]]
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name=Lycium pallidum
|authority=Miers
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Solanaceae
|distribution=sw United States;Mexico.
|reference=None
|publication title=Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser.
|publication year=1854
|special status=
|source xml=
|genus=Lycium
|species=Lycium pallidum
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