Solanum linearifolium

Erect shrub or small tree to 4 m high, green, virtually glabrous to sparsely pubescent with simple and glandular hairs; prickles absent. Leaves lobed or entire, apex acute, base attenuate, concolorous, glabrous; lobed leaves broad-elliptic to ovate, 15–40 cm long; lobes deep, 2–12 cm long, 0.5–1 cm wide; petiole to 1.5 cm long; entire leaves linear to narrow-elliptic, mostly 5–10 cm long, 0.5–1 cm wide; petiole 0.5–1 cm long, decurrent as a raised line. Inflorescences simple or forked at base, to 10-flowered; primary peduncle 0–8 mm long. Flowers on pedicels 2–3(–4) cm long; calyx 3–5 mm long, lobes triangular, 1–2 mm long; corolla more or less rotate to pentagonal, 25–45 mm diam., purple-violet; anthers c. 3 mm long. Berry globose to ovoid, 15–20 mm diam., yellow with purple markings; seeds 2–2.5 mm long, yellowish to light grey; stone-cell granules 2–4 mm long. Flowers mostly spring and summer.