Lycium

Shrublets, shrubs, or small trees; branchlets often spiny. Leaves often in fascicles. Flowers solitary. Calyx 3-5-lobed; lobes equal or unequal, often +/- as long as tube; tube usually somewhat campanulate. Corolla 4- or 5-lobed; tube campanulate, funnel-shaped, urceolate or cylindric; lobes much shorter than, to nearly as long as, the tube. Stamens 4 or 5, alternating with corolla lobes, arising in corolla tube, included or exserted; filaments linear, often dilated and hairy at base; anthers 2-thecous. Disc annular or cupular. Ovary 2-locular, with few to many ovules; style simple, terete, included or slightly exserted; stigma capitate, cyathiform or shortly 2-lobed. Fruit a globose, ovoid, or conical berry. Seeds suborbicular, compressed. x = 6 (9, 10, 13) (aneuploids, polyploidy).