Plant Details

Accepted name:: Lycium shawii Roem. & Schult. [Solanaceae]
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Source:: World Checklist of Vascular Plants

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
'awsaj	Other	Med. & Culinary: Genus Lycium Case Study (Yao et al., 2021)
al-hozaz	Other	Med. & Culinary: Genus Lycium Case Study (Yao et al., 2021)
araro	Other	Med. & Culinary: Genus Lycium Case Study (Yao et al., 2021)
aswaj	Other	Med. & Culinary: Genus Lycium Case Study (Yao et al., 2021)
ausaj	Other	Med. & Culinary: Genus Lycium Case Study (Yao et al., 2021)
awsaag	Other	Med. & Culinary: Genus Lycium Case Study (Yao et al., 2021)
awsag	Other	Med. & Culinary: Genus Lycium Case Study (Yao et al., 2021) Trad. Med. Pl. of Al-Rass, Saudi Arabia (El-Ghazali et al., 2010) Trad. Use of Ethnomed. Pl. of Saudi Arabia (Aati et al., 2019)
awsage	Other	Med. & Culinary: Genus Lycium Case Study (Yao et al., 2021)
awsaj	Other	Encyc. of Med. Pl. of UAE (2005) Handbook of Arabian Med. Pl. (Ghazanfar, 1994) Med. & Culinary: Genus Lycium Case Study (Yao et al., 2021) Med. Pl. in Jordan (Oran, 1998)
awseg	Other	Med. & Culinary: Genus Lycium Case Study (Yao et al., 2021)
awshaj	Other	Handbook of Arabian Med. Pl. (Ghazanfar, 1994)
box thorn	Other	Med. & Culinary: Genus Lycium Case Study (Yao et al., 2021)
buckthorn	Other	Med. & Culinary: Genus Lycium Case Study (Yao et al., 2021)
dehir	Other	Med. & Culinary: Genus Lycium Case Study (Yao et al., 2021)
desert thorn	Other	Encyc. of Med. Pl. of UAE (2005) Med. & Culinary: Genus Lycium Case Study (Yao et al., 2021)
dish	Other	Med. & Culinary: Genus Lycium Case Study (Yao et al., 2021)
doreda	Other	Med. & Culinary: Genus Lycium Case Study (Yao et al., 2021)
filrahrakh	Other	Med. & Culinary: Genus Lycium Case Study (Yao et al., 2021)
fizahraj	Other	Med. & Culinary: Genus Lycium Case Study (Yao et al., 2021)
gharqad	Other	Med. & Culinary: Genus Lycium Case Study (Yao et al., 2021)
ghasad	Other	Encyc. of Med. Pl. of UAE (2005) Med. & Culinary: Genus Lycium Case Study (Yao et al., 2021)
gul gaider’	Other	Med. & Culinary: Genus Lycium Case Study (Yao et al., 2021)
hedalusayto	Other	Med. & Culinary: Genus Lycium Case Study (Yao et al., 2021)
hozaz	Other	Med. & Culinary: Genus Lycium Case Study (Yao et al., 2021)
kakooma	Other	Med. & Culinary: Genus Lycium Case Study (Yao et al., 2021)
lughion	Other	Med. & Culinary: Genus Lycium Case Study (Yao et al., 2021)
lycion	Other	Med. & Culinary: Genus Lycium Case Study (Yao et al., 2021)
osaj	Other	Med. & Culinary: Genus Lycium Case Study (Yao et al., 2021)
osaje	Other	Med. & Culinary: Genus Lycium Case Study (Yao et al., 2021)
o’saj	Other	Med. Pl. in Jordan (Oran, 1998)
qasad	Other	Handbook of Arabian Med. Pl. (Ghazanfar, 1994) Med. & Culinary: Genus Lycium Case Study (Yao et al., 2021)
qassad	Other	Encyc. of Med. Pl. of UAE (2005)
sakkoum	Other	Med. & Culinary: Genus Lycium Case Study (Yao et al., 2021)
sarim	Other	Med. Pl. in Jordan (Oran, 1998)
surad	Other	Med. & Culinary: Genus Lycium Case Study (Yao et al., 2021)
wolfberry	Other	Med. & Culinary: Genus Lycium Case Study (Yao et al., 2021)
zirok	Other	Med. & Culinary: Genus Lycium Case Study (Yao et al., 2021)
´awsaj	Other	Med. & Culinary: Genus Lycium Case Study (Yao et al., 2021)
العوسج	Other	Med. & Culinary: Genus Lycium Case Study (Yao et al., 2021)
سارم	Other	Med. Pl. in Jordan (Oran, 1998)
عسج	Other	Med. Pl. in Jordan (Oran, 1998)
عوسج	Other	Med. & Culinary: Genus Lycium Case Study (Yao et al., 2021) Med. Pl. in Jordan (Oran, 1998)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
Aerial parts, fruits		Encyc. of Med. Pl. of UAE (2005)
Fruits		Trad. Use of Ethnomed. Pl. of Saudi Arabia (Aati et al., 2019)
fruits		Med. Pl. in Jordan (Oran, 1998)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 24 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Lycium ovinum Dammer Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 53: 352 (1915).
Lycium abeliiflorum Rchb. Icon. Fl. Germ. Helv. 20: 10 (1861).
Lycium albiflorum Dammer Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 48: 226 (1912).
Lycium arabicum Schweinf. ex Boiss. Fl. Orient. 4: 289 (1879), nom. superfl.
Lycium barbarum Mill. Gard. Dict., ed. 8.: n.° 4 (1768), nom. illeg.
Lycium cufodontii Lanza Miss. Biol. Borana, Racc. Bot., Angiosp.-Gymnosp.: 202 (1939).
Lycium ellenbeckii Dammer Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 48: 231 (1912).
Lycium erythraeum Schweinf. ex Vatke Linnaea 43: 333 (1882).
Lycium jaegeri Dammer Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 48: 232 (1912).
Lycium javellense Lanza Miss. Biol. Borana, Racc. Bot., Angiosp.-Gymnosp.: 204 (1939).
Lycium mediterraneum var. cinereum Dunal in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 13(1): 524 (1852).
Lycium mediterraneum var. cinnamomeum Dunal in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 13(1): 525 (1852).
Lycium mediterraneum var. leptophyllum Dunal in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 13(1): 525 (1852).
Lycium mediterraneum var. leucocladum Dunal in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 13(1): 525 (1852).
Lycium mediterraneum subsp. longiflorum Dunal in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 13(1): 524 (1852).
Lycium merkeri Dammer Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 48: 224 (1912).
Lycium persicum Miers Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 2, 14: 12 (1854).
Lycium persicum var. cinereum Bornm. Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 61B: 105 (1941).
Lycium persicum subvar. leptophyllum (Dunal) Hayek Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 30(2): 97 (1929).
Lycium persicum var. leptophyllum (Dunal) Bornm. Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 61B: 105 (1941).
Lycium shawii var. leptophyllum (Dunal) Täckh. & Boulos ex A.Baytop in P.H.Davis (ed.), Fl. Turkey 6: 447 (1978).
Lycium somalense Dammer Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 48: 225 (1912).
Lycium tenuiramosum Dammer Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 48: 225 (1912).
Lycium withaniifolium Dammer Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 48: 230 (1912).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Lycium ovinum Damm.	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Lycium shawii Roem.	Trad. Med. Pl. of Al-Rass, Saudi Arabia (El-Ghazali et al., 2010) Trad. Use of Ethnomed. Pl. of Saudi Arabia (Aati et al., 2019)
Lycium shawii Roem. & Schult.	Med. & Culinary: Genus Lycium Case Study (Yao et al., 2021) PROTA: Med. Pl. Trop. Africa 1 (Schmelzer et al., 2008) SOTWP 2016: PROTA (2015) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Lycium shawii Roem. et Schult	Encyc. of Med. Pl. of UAE (2005) Handbook of Arabian Med. Pl. (Ghazanfar, 1994)
Lycium shawii Roemer & Schultes	Med. Pl. in Jordan (Oran, 1998)

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