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The genus Lycium is in the family Solanaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Lycium

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See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Lycium acutifolium E. Mey. ex Dunal	Accepted		TRO
Lycium afrum L.	Accepted		TRO
Lycium ameghinoi Speg.	Accepted		TRO
Lycium americanum Jacq.	Accepted		TRO
Lycium andersonii A. Gray	Accepted		TRO
Lycium barbarum L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Lycium berlandieri Dunal	Accepted		TRO
Lycium bosciifolium Schinz	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Lycium brevipes Benth.	Accepted		TRO
Lycium californicum A. Gray	Accepted		TRO
Lycium carolinianum Walter	Accepted		TRO
Lycium cestroides Schltdl.	Accepted		TRO
Lycium chanar Phil.	Accepted		TRO
Lycium chilense Bertero	Accepted		TRO
Lycium chinense Mill.	Accepted		TRO
Lycium ciliatum Schltdl.	Accepted		TRO
Lycium cinereum Thunb.	Accepted		TRO
Lycium cooperi A. Gray	Accepted		TRO
Lycium cuneatum Dammer	Accepted		TRO
Lycium cylindricum Kuang & A. M. Lu	Accepted		TRO
Lycium dasystemum Pojark.	Accepted		TRO
Lycium decumbens Welw. ex Hiern	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Lycium depressum Stocks	Accepted		TRO
Lycium deserti Phil.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Lycium distichum Meyen	Accepted		TRO
Lycium eenii S. Moore	Accepted		TRO
Lycium elongatum Miers	Accepted		TRO
Lycium exsertum A. Gray	Accepted		TRO
Lycium ferocissimum Miers	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Lycium fremontii A. Gray	Accepted		TRO
Lycium fuscum Miers	Accepted		TRO
Lycium gilliesianum Miers	Accepted		TRO
Lycium glomeratum Sendtn.	Accepted		TRO
Lycium hassei Greene	Accepted		TRO
Lycium hirsutum Dunal	Accepted		TRO
Lycium horridum Thunb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Lycium humile Phil.	Accepted		TRO
Lycium infaustum Miers	Accepted		TRO
Lycium isthmense F. Chiang	Accepted		TRO
Lycium leiostemum Wedd.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Lycium macrodon A. Gray	Accepted		TRO
Lycium mascarenense A.M. Venter & A.J. Scott	Accepted		TRO
Lycium minimum C.L. Hitchc.	Accepted		TRO
Lycium minutifolium Remy	Accepted		TRO
Lycium morongii Britton	Accepted		TRO
Lycium nodosum Miers	Accepted		TRO
Lycium oxycarpum Dunal	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Lycium pallidum Miers	Accepted		TRO
Lycium parishii A. Gray	Accepted		TRO
Lycium pilifolium C.H. Wright	Accepted		TRO
Lycium prunus-spinosa Dunal	Accepted		TRO
Lycium puberulum A. Gray	Accepted		TRO
Lycium rachidocladum Dunal	Accepted		TRO
Lycium repens Speg.	Accepted		TRO
Lycium richii A. Gray	Accepted		TRO
Lycium ruthenicum Murray	Accepted		TRO
Lycium sandwicense A. Gray	Accepted		TRO
Lycium shawii Roem. & Schult.	Accepted		TRO
Lycium stenophyllum J. Rémy	Accepted		TRO
Lycium tenuispinosum S.B. Jones & W.Z. Faust	Accepted		TRO
Lycium tetrandrum Thunb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Lycium torreyi A. Gray	Accepted		TRO
Lycium truncatum Y.C. Wang	Accepted		TRO
Lycium tweedianum Griseb.	Accepted		TRO
Lycium vimineum Miers	Accepted		TRO
Lycium yunnanense Kuang & A.M. Lu	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 328 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Lycium. Of these 66 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 36 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Lycium. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 328 species names for the genus Lycium recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	66	20.1%
◕	Synonym	111	33.8%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	151	46.0%

All names

The status of the 364 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Lycium recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	76	20.9%
◕	Synonym	137	37.6%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	151	41.5%

The confidence with which the status of the 328 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Lycium, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	66	110	0	0	176	53.7%
	Low confidence	0	1	0	151	152	46.3%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Lycium, are as follows: