Plant Details

Accepted name:: Lycium barbarum var. barbarum [Solanaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Infraspecies of:: Lycium barbarum L.
Infraspecies:: Lycium barbarum var. aurantiicarpum K.F.Ching

No non-scientific names for this plant in the MPNS resource.

Kew's taxonomic resources include 19 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Lycium barbatum Thunb. Prodr. Pl. Cap.: 37 (1794).
Lycium halimifolium Mill. Gard. Dict., ed. 8.: n.° 6 (1768).
Boberella halimifolia (Mill.) E.H.L.Krause in J.W.Sturm, Deutschl. Fl. Abbild., ed. 2. 10: 55 (1903).
Lycium barbarum var. implicatum T.Y.Chen & Xu L.Jiang Guihaia 32: 8 (2012).
Lycium barbarum var. vulgare Aiton Hort. Kew. 1: 257 (1789).
Lycium chinense var. cochinchinense (Lour.) Terraciano Malpighia 4: 515 (1891).
Lycium chinense f. turbinatum Terraciano Malpighia 4: 515 (1891).
Lycium cochinchinense Lour. Fl. Cochinch.: 134 (1790).
Lycium dunalianum Bubani ex Dunal in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 13(1): 509 (1852).
Lycium floridum Salisb. Prodr. Stirp. Chap. Allerton: 135 (1796).
Lycium thunbergii G.Don Gen. Hist. 4: 459 (1838).
Lycium trewianum Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg., ed. 15[bis]. 4: 693 (1819).
Lycium turbinatum Veill. in H.L.Duhamel du Monceau, Traité Arbr. Arbust., nouv. éd., 1: 119 (1802).
Lycium vulgare (Aiton) Dunal in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 13(1): 509 (1852).
Lycium vulgare f. afroides Terraciano Malpighia 4: 512 (1891).
Lycium vulgare var. boissieri Terraciano Malpighia 4: 512 (1891).
Lycium vulgare f. depressum Terraciano Malpighia 4: 513 (1891).
Lycium vulgare subvar. foliosum Terraciano Malpighia 4: 512 (1891).
Teremis elliptica Raf. Sylva Tellur.: 54 (1838).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Lycium barbarum var. barbarum	WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2023 (WHO-UMC, 2023)
Lycium barbatum L.	WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019)
Lycium halimifolium J.S.Mill.	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Lycium halimifolium Mill.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Lycium halimifolium Miller	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)

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