Lycium

Accepted species 95 Documented here 45 Family Solanaceae

Accepted species 95 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Lycium ferocissimum Miers 1,120 documented
Lycium barbarum L. 531 documented
Lycium andersonii A.Gray 530 documented
Lycium berlandieri Dunal 342 documented
Lycium carolinianum Walter 313 documented
Lycium oxycarpum Dunal 181 documented
Lycium californicum Nutt. ex A.Gray 168 documented
Lycium pallidum Miers 140 documented
Lycium brevipes Benth. 120 documented
Lycium cooperi A.Gray 117 documented
Lycium shawii Roem. & Schult. 117 documented
Lycium boerhaviifolium L.f. 78 documented
Lycium cestroides Schltdl. 75 documented
Lycium afrum L. 73 documented
Lycium fremontii A.Gray 70 documented
Lycium chinense Mill. 66 documented
Lycium chilense Bertero 63 documented
Lycium exsertum A.Gray 56 documented
Lycium horridum Thunb. 54 documented
Lycium cinereum Thunb. 46 documented
Lycium pumilum Dammer 45 documented
Lycium schizocalyx C.H.Wright 43 documented
Lycium parishii A.Gray 31 documented
Lycium tetrandrum Thunb. 29 documented
Lycium australe F.Muell. 25 documented
Lycium schweinfurthii Dammer 24 documented
Lycium tenuispinosum Miers 24 documented
Lycium bosciifolium Schinz 23 documented
Lycium shockleyi A.Gray 23 documented
Lycium vimineum Miers 22 documented
Lycium torreyi A.Gray 20 documented
Lycium amoenum Dammer 15 documented
Lycium ciliatum Schltdl. 15 documented
Lycium americanum Jacq. 14 documented
Lycium chanar Phil. 14 documented
Lycium dasystemum Pojark. 13 documented
Lycium europaeum L. 13 documented
Lycium hirsutum Dunal 13 documented
Lycium infaustum Miers 10 documented
Lycium ruthenicum Murray 8 documented
Lycium gilliesianum Miers 7 documented
Lycium leiostemum Wedd. 7 documented
Lycium elongatum Miers 6 documented
Lycium humile Phil. 6 documented
Lycium stenophyllum J.Rémy 3 documented
Lycium arenicola Miers 3 below the evidence gate
Lycium bridgesii (Miers) R.A.Levin, Jill S.Mill. & Bernardello 2 below the evidence gate
Lycium decumbens Welw. ex Hiern 2 below the evidence gate
Lycium minimum C.L.Hitchc. 2 below the evidence gate
Lycium strandveldense A.M.Venter 1 below the evidence gate
Lycium × argentinocestroides Hieron. 0 below the evidence gate
Lycium × ciliato-elongatum Bernardello 0 below the evidence gate
Lycium × elongato-cestroides Hieron. 0 below the evidence gate
Lycium acutifolium Dunal 0 below the evidence gate
Lycium amarum Lu Q.Huang 0 below the evidence gate
Lycium ameghinoi Speg. 0 below the evidence gate
Lycium arochae F.Chiang, T.Wendt & E.J.Lott 0 below the evidence gate
Lycium athium Bernardello 0 below the evidence gate
Lycium cuneatum Dammer 0 below the evidence gate
Lycium cyathiforme C.L.Hitchc. 0 below the evidence gate
Lycium cylindricum K.Z.Kuang & A.M.Lu 0 below the evidence gate
Lycium densifolium Wiggins 0 below the evidence gate
Lycium depressum Stocks 0 below the evidence gate
Lycium deserti Phil. 0 below the evidence gate
Lycium distichum Meyen 0 below the evidence gate
Lycium eenii S.Moore 0 below the evidence gate
Lycium elliotii Dammer 0 below the evidence gate
Lycium fuscum Miers 0 below the evidence gate
Lycium gariepense A.M.Venter 0 below the evidence gate
Lycium geniculatum Fernald 0 below the evidence gate
Lycium glomeratum Sendtn. 0 below the evidence gate
Lycium grandicalyx Joubert & Venter 0 below the evidence gate
Lycium hantamense A.M.Venter 0 below the evidence gate
Lycium isthmense F.Chiang 0 below the evidence gate
Lycium leiospermum I.M.Johnst. 0 below the evidence gate
Lycium macrodon A.Gray 0 below the evidence gate
Lycium martii Sendtn. 0 below the evidence gate
Lycium megacarpum Wiggins 0 below the evidence gate
Lycium mellitum J.Z.Dong 0 below the evidence gate
Lycium minutifolium J.Rémy 0 below the evidence gate
Lycium morongii Britton 0 below the evidence gate
Lycium nodosum Miers 0 below the evidence gate
Lycium ostrum J.Z.Dong 0 below the evidence gate
Lycium pilifolium C.H.Wright 0 below the evidence gate
Lycium puberulum A.Gray 0 below the evidence gate
Lycium rachidocladum Dunal 0 below the evidence gate
Lycium repens Speg. 0 below the evidence gate
Lycium schaffneri A.Gray ex Hemsl. 0 below the evidence gate
Lycium schreiteri F.A.Barkley 0 below the evidence gate
Lycium tenue Willd. 0 below the evidence gate
Lycium texanum Correll 0 below the evidence gate
Lycium truncatum Y.C.Wang 0 below the evidence gate
Lycium verrucosum Eastw. 0 below the evidence gate
Lycium villosum Schinz 0 below the evidence gate
Lycium yunnanense Kuang & A.M.Lu 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.