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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Lycium

Hierarchical position of the Genus Lycium

Regnum  Plantae common name: The plant kingdom       Divisio  Magnoliophyta Cronquist syn. Angiospermophyta / Anthophyta pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: angiosperms, flowering plants       Subdivisio  Magnoliophytina Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: Angiosperms       Classis  Rosopsida Batsch pub. Dispos. Gen. Pl. Jenens.: 28. 1788.       Subclassis  Lamiidae Takht. ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 74: 178. 25 Mar 1993.       SuperOrdo  Solananae R. Dahlgren ex Reveal pub. Novon 2: 236. 1992.       Ordo  Solanales Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 20. 1829. common name: Polemoniales       Subordo  Solanineae Engl. pub. Syllabus, ed. 2: 180. Mai 1898.       Familia  Solanaceae Juss. pub. Gen. Pl.: 124. 4 Aug 1789. common name: Potatos, tomato, peppers       Tribus  Lycieae Lowe pub. Man. Fl. Madeira 2: 96. Jan-Apr 1872.       Subtribus  Lyciinae Hogg pub. Veg. Kingd.: 545. 1858.       Genus  Lycium L. pub. (1753) common name: desert-thorn

Named members of the Genus Lycium

1	Species  americanum Jacq. syn. Lycium tweedianum var. chrysocarpum
2	Species  andersonii Gray common name: wolfberry
	3    Varietas  andersonii common name: water jacket 4    Varietas  deserticola (C.L. Hitchc.) C.L. Hitchc. ex Munz common name: water jacket 5    Varietas  wrightii Gray common name: water jacket
6	Species  barbarum L. common name: matrimony vine
7	Species  berberioides Correll syn. Lycium puberulum var. berberioides
8	Species  berlandieri Dunal
	9    Varietas  berlandieri common name: Berlandier's wolfberry 10    Varietas  brevilobum C.L. Hitchc. syn. Lycium berlandieri var. parviflorum 11    Varietas  longistylum C.L. Hitchc. common name: Berlandier's wolfberry 12    Varietas  parviflorum (Gray) Terracc. common name: Berlandier's wolfberry
13	Species  brevipes Benth.
	14    Varietas  hassei (Greene) C.L. Hitchc. syn. Lycium hassei
15	Species  californicum Nutt. ex Gray common name: California desert-thorn
16	Species  carolinianum Walt.
	17    Varietas  carolinianum common name: Carolina desert-thorn 18    Varietas  quadrifidum (Dunal) C.L. Hitchc. common name: Carolina desert-thorn 19    Varietas  sandwicense (Gray) C.L. Hitchc. syn. Lycium sandwicense
20	Species  chinense P. Mill. common name: Chinese desert-thorn
21	Species  cooperi Gray common name: peach thorn
22	Species  exsertum Gray common name: Arizona desert-thorn
23	Species  ferrocissimum Miers common name: African boxthorn
24	Species  fremontii Gray common name: Fremont's desert-thorn
25	Species  halimifolium P. Mill. syn. Lycium barbarum
26	Species  hassei Greene common name: Santa Catalina Island desert-thorn
27	Species  macrodon Gray common name: desert wolfberry
28	Species  pallidum Miers
	29    Varietas  oligospermum C.L. Hitchc. common name: rabbit thorn 30    Varietas  pallidum common name: pale desert-thorn
31	Species  parishii Gray common name: Parish's desert-thorn
32	Species  puberulum Gray
	33    Varietas  berberioides (Correll) Chiang common name: downy desert-thorn 34    Varietas  puberulum common name: downy desert-thorn
35	Species  richii Gray
	36    Varietas  hassei (Greene) I.M. Johnston syn. Lycium hassei
37	Species  rickardii C.H. Muller syn. Lycium shockleyi
38	Species  sandwicense Gray common name: Hawai'i desert-thorn
39	Species  shockleyi Gray common name: Shockley's desert-thorn
40	Species  texanum Correll common name: Texas desert-thorn
41	Species  torreyi Gray common name: squawthorn
42	Species  tweedianum Griseb.
	43    Varietas  chrysocarpum (Urban & Ekman) C.L. Hitchc. common name: tropical desert-thorn
44	Species  verrucosum Eastw. common name: San Nicholas desert-thorn
45	Species  vulgare Dunal syn. Lycium barbarum

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

Additional information is available in the commercial version of The Compleat Botanica software for species with this symbol.

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.