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Lycium megacarpum Wiggins

Type: Mexico: Baja California Norte, 11 miles south of Jaraguay Summit, between Catavina and laguna Seca Chapala, 16 Feb. 1935, Wiggins 7611 (holotype: DS; isotype: US)

Geographical Region: North America

Distribution: MEXICO: Baja California, Baja California Sur

Habit: low, prostrate, intricately branched, thorny

Shrub height: 0.3-1.5 m

Leaf characteristics:

Leaf Succulence: succulent
Leaf Pubescence: glabrous
Leaf Length: 3-10 mm
Leaf Width: 5-30 mm

Calyx characteristics:

Calyx Shape: tubular-campanulate
Calyx Pubescence: glabrous
Calyx Tube Length: 3.5-5 mm
Calyx Lobe Length: 0.7-2 mm

Corolla characteristics:

Corolla Color: white with greenish-purple tube
Flower Shape: rounded
Corolla Tube Length: 10-14 mm
Corolla Lobe Length: 1.5-2.5 mm

Merosity: 5

Filament Pubescence: densely pubescent at base of free portion

Sexuality: hermaphroditic

Fruit characteristics:

Fruit Type: berry
Fruit Shape: ovoid
Fruit Color: red
Fruit length: 9-12 mm
Fruit width: nearly as thick
Fruit constriction: constricted

Seed Number: many-seeded

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