Solanum gilesii Symon

Spreading or erect clonal shrub to 50 cm, brownish-green, the young parts rusty red or orange-brown; densely pubescent with stellate hairs, the peduncles woolly; prickles to 8 mm long, usually scattered on stems, abundant on calyx, few or absent elsewhere. Leaves ovate to ovate-oblong; lamina mostly 2–4 cm long, 1–3 cm wide, slightly discolorous, undulate to shallowly lobed; petiole to 10 mm long. Inflorescence short, 1–3–flowered; peduncle to 5 mm long; pedicels 5–10 mm long. Calyx 6–10 mm long, enlarged in fruit; lobes triangular, 1–4 mm long. Corolla rotate-pentagonal, 25 mm diam., purple. Anthers 7–8 mm long. Berry globular, c. 10 mm diam., drab bone-coloured; fruiting pedicels 10–15 mm long; fruiting calyx 10–15 mm diam. Seeds 3 mm long, pale.

It grows on red sands and sandplains. It is a temperate plant. It can grow in arid places.