View source for Lycium puberulum

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|accepted_name=Lycium puberulum
|accepted_authority=A. Gray
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|place=6: 46. 1862
|year=1862
}}
|common_names=Downy desert-thorn or wolfberry
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Lycium berberioides
|authority=Correll
|rank=species
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|name=L. puberulum var. berberidoides
|authority=(Correll) F. Chiang
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Solanaceae;Lycium;Lycium puberulum
|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 puberulum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 14
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>erect, 0.7–2 m; bark chocolate brown or reddish purple to black; stems glabrate. <b>Leaves</b>: blade spatulate, 5–40 × 2.5–11 mm, glaucous, surfaces glabrous or pubescent. <b>Inflorescences</b> 2-flowered fascicles or solitary flowers. <b>Pedicels</b> 1–4 mm. <b>Flowers</b> (4–)5-merous; calyx campanulate, 4–8 mm, lobes ovate, length 1–2 times tube; corolla pale purple to white with greenish lobes, tubular to funnelform, 7–13 mm, lobes 2–3 mm; stamens included. <b>Berries</b> pale orange-yellow, ovoid, constricted proximal to middle, 4–9 mm, glaucous, dry, hard. <b>Seeds</b> 2–4. <b>2n</b> = 24.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Mar–Apr.
|habitat=Desert hills, flats.
|elevation=500–1200 m.
|distribution=Tex.;Mexico (Chihuahua;Coahuila;Durango).
|discussion=<p>Lycium puberulum is similar to L. cooperi and L. macrodon; it is restricted to the Chihuahuan Desert, occurring in western Texas and adjacent northern Mexico. In that region, L. pallidum is the most similar species, but it occurs at higher elevations, has much larger flowers, and its fruit is a fleshy berry versus the hardened fruit of L. puberulum.</p>
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name=Lycium puberulum
|authority=A. Gray
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Lycium berberioides;L. puberulum var. berberidoides
|basionyms=
|family=Solanaceae
|phenology=Flowering Mar–Apr.
|habitat=Desert hills, flats.
|elevation=500–1200 m.
|distribution=Tex.;Mexico (Chihuahua;Coahuila;Durango).
|reference=None
|publication title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|publication year=1862
|special status=
|source xml=
|genus=Lycium
|species=Lycium puberulum
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