Solanum petrophilum F.Muell.

Intricate, usually erect, clonal shrub to 50 cm, grey-green, occasionally rusty-green, densely pubescent with stellate hairs; prickles to 10 mm long, common on most parts. Leaves ovate-lanceolate to oblong; lamina 3–6 cm long, 1.5–3 cm wide, sometimes larger, slightly to distinctly discolorous, shallowly to deeply lobed; petiole 5–15 mm long. Inflorescence 3–10–flowered; peduncle 5–10 mm long, sometimes to 30 mm; rachis to 5 cm long; pedicels 5–10 mm long. Calyx 8–10 mm long; lobes narrowly triangular with linear apices, 6–7 mm long, elongated slightly in fruit. Corolla shallowly campanulate-rotate, 25–30 mm diam., purple. Anthers 4–6 mm long. Berry globular or depressed globular, 8–10 mm diam., sometimes to 15 mm, yellow, drying pale brown. Seeds 1–1.5 mm long, light brown or grey-brown, finally hard and bony.

It grows on sandy and clayey soils and rocky hills. It grows in arid places.