Solanum lasiophyllum Dunal

Erect or rounded shrub to 2 m, usually grey-green, the growing points and buds often purplish, densely pubescent with stellate hairs; prickles to 5 mm long, moderately abundant on stems and fruiting calyx, less common or absent elsewhere. Leaves ovate to broadly elliptic; lamina mostly 4–7 cm long, 2.5–5 cm wide, sometimes larger, concolorous, entire, rarely shallowly lobed; petiole mostly 5–15 mm long. Inflorescence short, the axis elongated in fruit, 2–7–flowered; peduncle 10–15 mm long; pedicels 8–10 mm long. Calyx usually 7–10 mm long; lobes triangular, 3–6 mm long; tube enlarged in fruit. Corolla rotate-pentagonal, usually 25–30 mm diam., purple. Anthers 4–6 mm long. Berry globular to ovoid, rarely conical or ellipsoid, 10–15 mm diam., yellow; fruiting peduncle and axis to 9 cm long; fruiting calyx 10–15 mm diam. Seeds 2–3 mm long, pale or light brown.

Usually occurs in sand or onstony rises in W.A., but restricted to rocky outcrops and ranges in N.T. andS.A.