Solanum furcatum

Erect, ascensding or straggling perennial herb with stems usually to 1 m long, green or purplish-green, sparsely pubescent with simple hairs; prickles absent. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, 3–10 cm long, 2–5 cm wide, slightly discolorous, apex acute or obtuse, base cuneate, margins entire to shallowly lobed, both surfaces sparsely pubescent; petiole 1–3 cm long, usually winged in upper part. Inflorescences simple, forked or branched, to 24-flowered; primary peduncle 1–2.5 cm long. Flowers on pedicels to c. 10 mm long; calyx 2–3 mm long, lobes broad-triangular, 1–1.5 mm long, often rounded at apex; corolla stellate, 12–20 mm diam., white with yellow centre, often variously tinged violet; anthers 2.3–4.2 mm long. Berry globose, 6–9 mm diam., purplish-black, more or less glabrous; seeds c. 2 mm long, light brown; stone-cell granules to 0.5–1.2 mm wide. Flowers summer and autumn.