Taxon: Lycium barbarum L.

Common names:

• Barbary matrimony-vine   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• Chinese boxthorn   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• Chinese wolfberry   (Source: Pl Names ) – English
  
• Duke of Argyll's teaplant   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• Duke of Argyll's teatree   (Source: Pl Book ) – English
  
• goji-berry   (Source: Pl Names ) – English
  
• Himalayan goji   (Source: Pl Names ) – English
  
• matrimony-vine   (Source: CRC MedHerbs ed2 ) – English
  
• Tibetan goji   (Source: Pl Names ) – English
  
• ning xia gou qi   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• Bocksdorn   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – German
  
• bocktörne   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Medicines: folklore   (fide Ency CNatIn; CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kingsbury, as Lycium halimifolium)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Lycium barbarum from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China - Gansu, Hebei [n.], Nei Monggol, Ningxia, Qinghai, Shanxi [n.], Sichuan, Xinjiang

• naturalized elsewhere

• also cultivated

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage.
• Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Fu, Y. C. et al. 1977–. Flora intramongolica.
• Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster. 1996. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica. [mentions].
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Willis, J. H. 1970–1972. A handbook to plants in Victoria.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Lycium barbarum.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Lycium barbarum.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Lycium barbarum.

Synonyms:

• (=) Lycium halimifolium Mill.
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)
• (=) Lycium vulgare Dunal
  (previously associated with 1 accession)

Check other web resources for Lycium barbarum L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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