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Calyx (2.5)3–6(7) mm long, tubular-campanulate or cupular, deeply lobed often more than halfway, with vesture as on leaves outside; tube (1.2)1.5–2(3) × 2.5–3 mm, often ribbed mainly to the base; lobes equal to slightly unequal, (0.5)1–3 mm long, triangular to ovate-oblong or narrowly triangular, acute or obtuse, erect to ± reflexed, densely puberulous to glabrous at margins and apex.
Leaves fascicled on stems and spines in clusters of 3–6, subsessile or with a petiole up to 2 mm long; lamina semi-succulent, (2)9–20(40) × (0.5)1–2(3) mm, linear or oblong, sometimes narrowly oblanceolate to spathulate or narrowly obovate, apex rounded to acute, occasionally acuminate, sometimes revolute at the margins, sparsely covered with glandular hairs.
Corolla creamy-white with purple venation and lobes, or all creamy, glabrous outside; tube 6–8 mm long, infundibuliform, villous to ± glabrous on the inside at filament insertions; limb (3)5–7 mm across; lobes (1.2)2–3.5(4) × 2 mm, suborbicular to ovate-triangular or ± oblong, rounded to acute, suberect to reflexed, ciliolate to glabrous at the margins.
Rigid, erect, profusely branched shrub, up to 1.7 m tall. Leaves semi-succulent, in clusters, oblong-obovate to narrowly obovate, 9-15 mm long. Flowers bisexual, trumpet-shaped, 6-8 mm long, creamy white with purple veins, lobes purple, reflexed, calyx ± as long as corolla tube. Berries red, spherical, ± 7 mm diam.
Shrub or shrublet, 0.5-2.0 mm high. Leaves obovate to narrowly obovate, 9-15 mm long, glabrous. Flowers bisexual; calyx 6-7 mm long, lobes 3-4 mm long; corolla 8-10 mm long; nectary brownish yellow, prominent. Flowering time Aug.-Nov. Fruit globose, red berry.
Shrub, 1-3 m high. Leaves and young branches glabrous. Leaves linear to narrowly oblanceolate. Peduncles 6-8 mm long. Calyx deeply divided into linear-oblong lobes. Corolla 10 mm long. Style and stamens exserted, filaments hairy at base. Flowers mauve.
Flowers hermaphrodite, 5-merous, erect to ± pendulous; pedicels (1.5)2–4(7) mm long, striate, glabrous to densely clothed with minute glandular hairs and occasionally also eglandular.
Stems profusely branched, with lateral branches divaricate; spines 10–15 mm long; bark brown to purplish-brown, glabrous and glossy, sometimes pale grey and striate when young.
Stamens unequal, attached at or near the middle of the corolla tube, clearly exserted; filaments (1.5)5–7 mm long, ± villous-pilose at and immediately above the base.
Ovary 1–1.5 mm in length or diameter, globose to slightly ovoid, apiculate; style 4–7.5(10) mm long, straight but often curving upwards, exserted like the stamens.
Fruit orange or red, occasionally turning blackish with age, (3)4–6 mm in length or diameter, globose to slightly ovoid, apiculate, poisonous.
Like L. cinereum but calyx deeply lobed, with sepals ± as long as tube.
Rigidly erect shrub, sometimes bushy and tangled, 0.3–3 m high.
Seeds 2–2.5 mm long, discoid-ovoid.
Disk not prominent, red.
