Lycium puberulum A. Gray
Type: United States: Texas: El Paso Co.: near El Paso, Wright 1609 (holotype: GH; isotypes: F, MO)
Geographical Region: North America
Distribution: MEXICO: Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango; UNITED STATES: Texas
Habit: thorny, sparingly branched, spreading
Shrub height: 1-2 m
Leaf characteristics:
Leaf Glaucous: glaucous
Leaf Pubescence: glabrous
Leaf Length: 6-40 mm
Leaf Width: 2.5-11 mm
Calyx characteristics:
Calyx Shape: campanulate
Calyx Pubescence: glabrous
Calyx Tube Length: 5-8 mm
Calyx Lobe Length: about as long as the calyx-tube or longer
Corolla characteristics:
Corolla Color: pale lavender, greenish with dark veins
Flower Shape: broadly ovate or oblong-ovate
Corolla Tube Length: 7-13 mm
Corolla Lobe Length: 2-3mm
Merosity: 5
Filament Pubescence: corolla tube hairy internally on lower third, glabrous elsewhere
Sexuality: hermaphroditic
Fruit characteristics:
Fruit Type: berry
Fruit Shape: constriction below middle, upper part evidently larger than lower one
Fruit Color: pale orange-yellow
Fruit length: 4-9 mm
Fruit constriction: constricted
Seed Number: 2-4
Varieties: puberulum, berberidoides