Solanum cookii Symon

Erect or sprawling shrub to 3 m, green, pubescent with simple and glandular hairs; stellate hairs usually present on lower leaf-surface; prickles to 10 mm long, abundant on most parts. Leaves ovate-elliptic; lamina 8–15 cm long, 5–10 cm wide, con– colorous, shallowly lobed; lobes angular, slightly toothed or lobed; petiole 3–6 cm long. Inflorescence few–10–flowered; peduncle 15–25 mm long; rachis 15–30 mm long; pedicels 3–8 mm long. Calyx 7–11 mm long; lobes linear-lanceolate, 5–8 mm long. Corolla broadly stellate to pentagonal, 15–20 mm diam., pale lavender-blue. Anthers 3.5–5 mm long. Berry globular, 10–15 mm diam.; colour not known. Seeds 2–2.5 mm long, pale yellowish or buff.

Usually associated with rainforest, growing in soils derived from basalt andgranodiorite.