Fig. 6

Voucher specimen of wolfberry, Lycium ruthenicum, gathered by Sven Hedin at Lop Nor in the spring of 1900. On the label he noted the local plant name Ak-tikken, i.e. aq tikän, ‘white tikän’, with a note that it is very common, and a popular place name in the Lop Nor region (Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm)