Solanum eburneum Symon

Sprawling, clonal, herbaceous perennial or subshrub to 0.5 m wide, grey-green, densely pubescent with stellate hairs; prickles to 5 mm long, common on stems, and on pedicel and calyx of bisexual flower, less common elsewhere. Leaves usually ovate to elliptic; lamina 2.5-8 cm long, 1-4 cm wide, usually deeply lobed; petiole 10-25 mm long. Inflorescence of one bisexual flower below elongating cyme of 3-many male flowers; peduncle to 10 mm long. Bisexual flower: pedicel c. 10 mm long, lengthening in fruit; calyx 7-10 mm long, the lobes narrowly triangular, several often partly fused, 5-6 mm long, lengthening in fruit; corolla pentagonal, 30 mm diam., purple; anthers 5-7 mm long. Male flowers similar: pedicels 5-8 mm long. Berry globular, 15-25 mm diam., whitish to pale green or yellow when ripe; fruiting pedicel 2-3 cm long; fruiting calyx-lobes 1-2 cm long. Seeds 2-2.5 mm long, very dark brown or black.

Usually growing in disturbed sites alongroadsides, in seasonally dry Melaleuca swamps or on flats with heavy grey soil.