Solanum species of eastern and northern Australia Habit.
Prostrate, herbaceous resprouter or rhizomatous perennial shrub,
0.1–0.25 m high. Branchlets. Branchlets grey or mauve to purple
or yellow or brown. Branchlet prickles 10–100 per decimetre,
straight, acicular, 1–8 mm long, 8–14 times longer than wide,
glabrous or with dense stellate hairs on lower part. Branchlet
hairs stellate. Branchlet stellae dense to very dense, 0.5–0.8
mm diameter, stalks 0–0.1 mm long. Branchlet stellae lateral
rays 7–10, porrect or ascending. Branchlet stellae central ray
0.5–1.2 times as long as laterals, not gland-tipped. Leaves.
Leaves elliptical or ovate, entire. Leaves 3.5–14 cm long,
1.5–5.2 cm wide, 1.7–2.9 times longer than broad. Leaf apex
obtuse or acute, base cuneate or obtuse. Leaf oblique part 0–9
mm long, obliqueness index 0–6 percent. Petioles 0.8–4 cm long,
20–45% length of lamina, prickles absent or present. Upper leaf
surface. Upper leaf surface green or grey-green. Upper leaf
surface prickles present on midvei