Lycium depressum

Description

Lycium depressum is a 1.5 to 2.5 m high, with spines reinforced shrub . The leaves are 20 to 50 mm long and 4 to 17 mm wide. The leaf blade is elongated, lanceolate to elliptical-elongated, elliptical-lanceolate or lanceolate to narrow lanceolate. The tip is stump to almost pointed, the base wedge-shaped. The flowers stand individually or in tufts from two to six on 5 to 7 mm long petal stems . The calyx is more or less cup-shaped, the calyces are irregular, can be dull or pointed and are finely hairy. The crown is pale violet to violet colored. The corolla is 4 to 5 mm long, glabrous and funnel-shaped. The length of the corolla lobe corresponds to about a third of the length of the corolla, the crown-lobes are ciliated. The stamens protrude beyond the crown, the stamens are glabrous at the base. The fruit is a red, spherical 5 to 6 mm diameter Berry . The seeds are kidney-shaped, brown, about 2 mm long and finely net-grubig. On the fruit, the flower stem extends up to 24 mm.