Lycium pallidum
Lycium pallidum
Lycium pallidum is a species of the genus Bock mandrels ( Lycium ) in the nightshade family (Solanaceae ). The enthusiast Sagenosoma elsa feeds probably monophagous of the plants.
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- 4.2 Main receipts
Description
Lycium pallidum is a 1 to 2 m tall, densely branched shrub and confused, which is armed with spines. The leaves are frosted, hairy with glandular and 10 to 15 mm long and 3-15 mm wide.
The flowers are hermaphroditic and fünfzählig. The calyx is cup-shaped frosted to bell-shaped and bluish. The calyx tube 5-8 mm long, the sepals are about as long as or longer than the calyx tube. The crown is lanceolate to ovate or elliptic and white to lavender - purple colored, but usually greenish with purple veins. The corolla tube reaches a length of 12 to 25 mm, the length of the Kronlappen corresponds to 1/ 5 to 1/ 3 of the length of the corolla. The stamens are almost to the edge of the corolla tube densely hairy.
The fruit is a red or reddish- blue, egg-shaped berry, which reached a diameter of 10 mm or less. It contains four to 50 seeds.
Occurrence
The species is widespread in North America and comes there in the Mexican states of Coahuila, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí and probably in the northern and eastern Chihuahua, and in the U.S. states of Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Texas before.
System
Inside systematics
Within the species, two varieties are distinguished:
- Lycium pallidum pallidum var
- Lycium pallidum var oligospermum
Outer systematics
Molecular biological studies place the species together with Lycium cooperi, Lycium macrodon, Lycium Lycium puberulum and shockleyi in a clade that is as Schwesterklade to autonomously run Grabowskia species within the genus Lycium.