Lycium shawii Roem. & Schult.

Type: Shaw, Travels in Barbar, p 49, fig 349, 1738 (icono-lectotype)

Geographical Region: Africa, Eurasia

Distribution: EGYPT; ETHIOPIA; ZIMBABWE; BOTSWANA; SOUTH AFRICA; SWAZILAND; ITALY; ISRAEL; INDIA; KENYA; ERYTHREA; MALAWI; SOCOTRA; SOMALIA; SUDAN; TANZANIA; UGANDA; ZAMBIA

Habit: straggling, sometimes scandent

Shrub height: 1-2.5m, rarely 4.5m

Leaf characteristics:

    Leaf Succulence: semi-succulent
    Pubescence: glabrous
    Leaf Length: 20-35 mm
    Leaf Width: 8-10 mm

Calyx characteristics:

    Calyx Shape: narrowly tubular
    Calyx Pubescence: glabrous
    Calyx Tube Length: 3-5 mm
    Calyx Lobe Length: 0.5-0.8 mm

Corolla characteristics:

    Corolla Color: creamy white with lobes white, or
    pale mauve with purple venation
    Flower Shape: ovate-oblong, spreading
    Corolla Tube Length: 12-16 mm
    Corolla Lobe Length: 3-4 mm

Merosity: 5

Filament Pubescence: glabrous

Sexuality: hermaphroditic

Fruit characteristics:

    Fruit Type: berry
    Fruit Shape: globose to slightly obovoid
    Fruit Color: red
    Fruit length: 3-5 mm diameter