Lycium hirsutum Dunal

Shrub, 2-3 m high; sprawling. Stems rigid and often curved, young stems ash-white to creamy white, densely hirsute, old stems dark grey and less hairy to glabrous. Leaves clustered on branchlets and thorns, 5-10 per cluster, solitary and alternate on young stems, herbaceous, subsessile or petioles 4-7 mm long; blade elliptic or narrowly obovate to obovate, 10-28 x 4-8 mm, yellowish to greyish green, densely hirsute. Flowers: bisexual; stamens and style included or very slightly exserted from corolla mouth; stamens inserted at or below middle of corolla tube; ring-shaped nectary around ovary base red; calyx funnel-shaped, 6-10 mm long, with oblong lobes > 1/2 the calyx length, densely hirsute; corolla with tube cylindrical 14-20 mm long, sparsely to densely hirsute outside, pilose inside at stamen insertion, creamy white to dirty white, rarely with purple venation; lobes semi-orbicular, 2-3 mm long, spreading; Apr.-Aug. Fruit a spherical to ovate berry, 5-6 x 4-5 mm, red.