Lycium depressum Stocks

(Fig. 7D)

Hooker’s Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 4: 179 (Hooker 1852).

TYPE MATERIAL. — Afghanistan • Ghus to Shasgr; 1879; J.W. Johnston 161; lecto-, K [K 000759455] photo!

ETYMOLOGY. — The specific epithet refers to low plants

PHENOLOGY. — Flowering and fruiting from June to September.

DISTRIBUTION AND HABITAT. — Eastern Mediterranean to Central Asia and Mongolia; new record for Mongolia, occurring in Umnugobi province. It grows on grassland.

ADDITIONAL SPECIMENS EXAMINED. — Mongolia • Umnugobi, Bayan-Ovoo Sum south, hollow; 26.VI.2011; L.Q. Zhao M-6021; HIMC[HIMC0012532] !

Pakistan • Hills above Kelat towards Johan; 1867; Stocks 1117; K[K000759453] (photo!).

TAXONOMIC NOTES

Lycium depressum and L. dasystemum Pojark exhibit morphological similarities, but can be distinguished by their floral characteristics: the filament bases and adjacent corolla tubes are pubescent in L. depressum, while these structures are glabrous in L. dasystemum (Nowak et al. 2020) .