AusTraits

Lycium afrum

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Family Solanaceae

Taxonomy: Lycium afrum L.

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC): Vic (naturalised)

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, Vic Flora, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (13), RBGV_2022 (3), RBGV_2023 (23), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 25 traits from 49 records in 7 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 13.5 mm (12-15 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 13.5 mm (12-15 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 13.5 mm (12-15 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): purple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 21.25 mm (12-25 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 1.5 mm (1-2 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): linear (2); narrowly_obovate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
  • leaf_arrangement (categorical): clustered (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
seed morphology
  • seed_width (numerical): 3 mm (3-3 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): hemispheric_flattened (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 2.5 m (2-3 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; RBGV_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
RBGV_20231823VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
ABRS_20231313Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Sjostrom_200644A. Sjöström and C. L. Gross. “Life-history characters and phylogeny are correlated with extinction risk in the Australian angiosperms”. Journal of Biogeography 33.2 (2006), pp. 271-290. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01393.x.
ABRS_202233Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
RBGV_202233VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.