Lycium shawiiRoem. & Schult.
Lycium shawii Roem. & Schult.
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Lycium abeliiflorum Rchb.
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Lycium albiflorum Damm.
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Lycium albiflorum Phil.
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Lycium arabicum Schweinf.
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Lycium arabicum Schweinf. ex Boiss.
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Lycium barbarum Mill.
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Lycium cufodontii Lanza
Spiny shrub, 1-3 m tall, glabrous, or pubescent. Leaves almost sessile, alternate or in fascicles of 2-10, oblanceolate, linear or elliptic, glabrous or hairy, entire, obtuse or acute, 0.5 - 2 x 0.3 - 0.8 cm. Flowers solitary, or in pairs, axillary; pedicel 0.3-1 cm long, hairy or glabrous. Calyx glabrous or hairy outside, tubular, c. 5 x 1.5 mm, 5-toothed, teeth triangular, 0.5 mm long, regular, in fruit slightly. enlarging and splitting irregularly into 3 teeth. Corolla bluish, tubular, tube 1.2 - 1.5 cm long. Stamens 5, inserted a little above the middle of the corolla tube, included; anthers oblong or globular, c. 1 mm across; filaments filiform, glabrous, ± 4 -5 mm long. Ovary ovoid, 1.5 - 1 mm, subtended by a disc; style filiform, 1.2-1.4 mm long; stigma capitate, c. 1 mm in diametér. Berries red, edible, pea-sized.