Lycium cinereum is a shrub in the nightshade family (Solanaceae) indigenous to southern Africa.

It is widespread across South Africa, as well as southern Namibia and Botswana.

[1][2] Lycium cinereum is a small, stiff, very spiny shrub.

Like many other Lycium species, the leaves are oblong to narrowly-elliptic in shape.

The calyx is relatively short, and covers less than half of the corolla tube.