taxonID	type	description	language	source
48820BF0FA2A585C9BB5AEA653AE261C.taxon	description	Fig. 1	en	Palchetti, Maria Virginia, Cantero, Juan Jose, Morales-Fierro, Vanezza, Barboza, Gloria E., Moreira-Munoz, Andres (2021): Living in extreme environments: distribution of Lycium humile (Solanaceae), an endemic halophyte from the Altiplano-Puna region, South America. PhytoKeys 185: 1-15, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.185.71377, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.185.71377
48820BF0FA2A585C9BB5AEA653AE261C.taxon	materials_examined	Type. Chile. [Antofagasta: Province of Antofagasta], Ad aquas [Profetas], December [1853] - January [1854], R. A. Philippi s. n., pro parte (lectotype, inadvertently designated as ' type' by Munoz Pizarro 1960, pg. 116: SGO! [SGO 000004448, acc. # 055683; Fig. 2], isolectotype: W n. v. [cited as isosyntype by Bernardello (1986)].	en	Palchetti, Maria Virginia, Cantero, Juan Jose, Morales-Fierro, Vanezza, Barboza, Gloria E., Moreira-Munoz, Andres (2021): Living in extreme environments: distribution of Lycium humile (Solanaceae), an endemic halophyte from the Altiplano-Puna region, South America. PhytoKeys 185: 1-15, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.185.71377, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.185.71377
48820BF0FA2A585C9BB5AEA653AE261C.taxon	description	Description. Dwarf shrubs, prostrate or ascending, up to 20 cm high, often forming dense and extensive mats, over 5 m. Subterranean organs well-developed with tangled and woody roots and rhizomes. Stems grayish-yellow, unarmed, glabrous, much branched, with slightly arched aerial branches and some stoloniferous branches. Leaves alternate or fasciculate, succulent, obovate or spatulate, light green, 2 - 16 mm long, 1 - 4 mm wide, glabrous or with occasionally glandular trichomes, sessile. Flowers 5 - merous (rarely 4 - or 6 - merous), solitary, perfect; calyx tubular, zygomorphic, glabrous, bilabiate or irregularly toothed, the tube 3 - 5 mm long, the lobes sub-triangular, 1 - 2 mm long, ciliate at the margins; corolla white, sometimes with purple lines within, narrowly infundibuliform to tubular, barely zygomorphic, glabrous outside, the tube 12 - 15.5 mm long, 3 - 3.5 mm wide, glabrescent near the insertion of the stamens inside, the lobes 2.5 - 3.5 mm long, 2.5 - 4 mm wide, ovate, with sparse cilia on the edge; stamens inserted at 2 / 3 from the base, at different levels, filaments unequal in length, some exserted, others included or barely exserted, with few simple hairs at their bases; ovary with prominent red-orange nectary at the base, style exserted or scarcely exserted. Berry subglobose, ca. 7 - 8 mm in diameter, blackish; seeds irregular, polyhedral, pale brown, up to 25 per fruit, the episperm smooth, without marked cells.	en	Palchetti, Maria Virginia, Cantero, Juan Jose, Morales-Fierro, Vanezza, Barboza, Gloria E., Moreira-Munoz, Andres (2021): Living in extreme environments: distribution of Lycium humile (Solanaceae), an endemic halophyte from the Altiplano-Puna region, South America. PhytoKeys 185: 1-15, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.185.71377, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.185.71377
48820BF0FA2A585C9BB5AEA653AE261C.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Lycium humile is distributed in the Andean region, southern South America (Argentina, Bolivia and Chile), at 2300 - 4100 m elevation (Fig. 3). In northwestern Argentina, it inhabits sites at 3000 - 4000 m elev. in the provinces of Catamarca (Antofagasta de la Sierra and Belen departments) and Salta (Los Andes department), and there is also a specimen collected in Jujuy province, Tumbaya department (Ancibor and Ruthsatz 65; BAA). In northeastern Chile, it occurs throughout the species' elevation range, in the regions of Antofagasta (Antofagasta and El Loa provinces) and Atacama (Copiapo and Chanaral provinces). In southwestern Bolivia, it grows in Potosi department, at the edges of Salar de Uyuni at ca. 3600 m elev. Previous publications (Bernardello 1986; Rodriguez et al. 2018; Zuloaga et al. 2019) have cited the species in the Chilean region of Tarapaca, however after studying herbarium material from Chile we consider its presence on this administrative region as doubtful (see discussion).	en	Palchetti, Maria Virginia, Cantero, Juan Jose, Morales-Fierro, Vanezza, Barboza, Gloria E., Moreira-Munoz, Andres (2021): Living in extreme environments: distribution of Lycium humile (Solanaceae), an endemic halophyte from the Altiplano-Puna region, South America. PhytoKeys 185: 1-15, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.185.71377, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.185.71377
