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Lycium shawii Roem. & Schult.

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

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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: 1-2.5 m, rarely 4.5 m

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

 

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