Lycium oxycarpum long flower tube

This Lycium oxycarpum flower has a long tube widening gradually to the flower mouth that is surrounded by five short corolla lobes. Pale yellow and brown anthers are exserted to just beyond the mauve-purple lobes. The flower has a long thin pedicel or stalk. The green calyx is notably short in this Lycium species. Some uneven dark lines are visible on the pale exterior of the corolla tube.

The leaves growing in whorls display minimal fleshiness, their narrowly linear shapes quite variable. Leaves are up to 30 mm long and 5 mm wide (Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2015; Coates Palgrave, 2002).