Solanum melanospermum F.Muell.

Erect shrub to 1.5 m, rusty-green, densely pubescent with stellate hairs; prickles to 7 mm long, abundant on calyx of bisexual flowers and young stems, sparse to absent elsewhere. Leaves ovate-lanceolate; lamina 4–7 cm long, 1.5–4 cm wide, concolorous, with several shallow lobes towards base; petiole 10–15 mm long. Juvenile leaves ovate, up to 15 cm long, 10 cm wide, lobed to deeply lobed; petiole 4–7 cm long. Inflorescence of one bisexual flower below cyme of up to 10 male flowers; peduncle absent or very short; rachis to 5 cm long. Bisexual flower: pedicels 2–3 cm long, lengthened in fruit; calyx 10–17 mm long, the lobes linear, 5–7 mm long, enlarged in fruit; corolla broadly stellate to pentagonal, 40–45 mm diam., purple; anthers 7 mm long. Male flowers: pedicels 2 cm long; calyx 5–6 mm long, the lobes triangular, c. 3 mm long; corolla broadly stellate, 30–35 mm diam., purple; anthers c. 6 mm long. Berry broadly ellipsoid, 2.5 cm long, pale yellow with deeper yellow stripes; fruiting pedicel 3–4 cm long; fruiting calyx lobes 1–2 cm long. Seeds 4 mm long, almost black.

Occurring on riverflats in open eucalypt woodland.