Lycium hantamense (Solanaceae), a new species from the Hantam-Roggeveld Centre of Plant Endemism, South Africa

Lycium hantamense, a new species is described. This species was discovered in the Hantam-Roggeveld Centre of Plant Endemism of the Succulent Karoo Region, South Africa. L. hantamense belongs to a unique group of seven polyploid, functionally dioecious species in a genus of normally diploid, hermaphrodite species. This new species resembles L. strandveldense most closely.