Solanum diversiflorum F.Muell.

Sparingly clonal, rounded shrub to 50 cm, green or grey-green, pubescent with stellate hairs; prickles to 1 cm long, pubescent for three quarters of length, scattered to abundant on most parts. Leaves ovate to ovate-oblong; lamina 2–4 cm long, 1–2 cm wide, sometimes larger, concolorous, deeply lobed; lobes oblong or obovate; petiole to 15 mm long. Inflorescence of one bisexual flower below cyme of up to 20 male flowers; peduncle absent; rachis 3–5 cm long. Bisexual flower: pedicels 1–3 cm long, lengthened in fruit; calyx 5–7 mm long, the lobes narrowly triangular, 1.5–3 mm long, lengthened in fruit; corolla rotate-pentagonal, c. 3 cm diam., purple; anthers 5–6 mm long. Male flowers similar: pedicels 8–15 mm long; calyx-lobes oblong, 2–3 mm long; anthers 4–5 mm long. Berry depressed globular, 2–3 cm diam., pale greenish-yellow; fruiting pedicel 2–4 cm long; fruiting calyx lobes 10–15 mm long. Seeds 3.5–5 mm long, dark brown to black.

Usually growing on red sandy plains, often with gravelly capping,or on low stony hills, dominated by Triodiaand Acacia.