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Lycium carolinianum  Walt.

Type: United States: Florida: Duva Co., salt marshes near mouth of St. John's River, 10 Oct. 1899, Curtiss 6543(lectotype: MO; isotypes: G, GH, NY, UC, US)

Geographical Region: North America

Distribution: MEXICO: Veracruz, Tamaulipas, Michoacan, Baja California Sur, Sinaloa, Colima, Oaxaca, Yucatan, Nayarit, Mexico, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí; UNITED STATES: South Carolina, Alabama, Florida, Hawaiian Islands, Texas, Louisiana; EASTER ISLAND; WEST INDIES

Habit: erect or slightly spreading

Shrub height: 0.4-3 m

Leaf characteristics:

Leaf Succulence: succulent
Leaf Pubescence: glabrous
Leaf Length: 10-35 mm
Leaf Width: 1-6 mm

Calyx characteristics:

Calyx Shape: cup-shaped
Calyx Pubescence: glabrous
Calyx Tube Length: 3mm

Corolla characteristics:

Corolla Color: lavender to purple or white
Flower Shape: campanulate-rotate
Corolla Tube Length: 7-12 mm
Corolla Lobe Length: equal in length to tube, or slightly shorter

Merosity: 4, rarely 5

Filament Pubescence: densely pilose on lower third or fourth of free portion

Sexuality: hermaphroditic

Fruit characteristics:

Fruit Type: berry
Fruit Shape: ovoid
Fruit length: 12 mm diameter
Fruit color: red 

Seed Number: many

Varieties: carolinianum, sandwicense, quadrifidum, gaumeri

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