Lycium depressum Stocks

Alatanzhula, Yue Xin, Zhao, Liqing, Gundegmaa, Vanjil, Yao, Zhenyu & Ri, Xu, 2025, A new Carex L. variety and ten new records from China and Mongolia, Adansonia (3) 47 (10), pp. 157-170 : 166-167

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5252/adansonia2025v47a10
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C9AB14-AF5F-FFAE-2A19-F8D662258E1F
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Lycium depressum Stocks
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Lycium depressum Stocks View in CoL

( Fig. 7D View FIG )

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.

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