Solanum cogulans Forssk.
A small, densely pubescent to glabrescent, yellowish-prickly or unarmed, branched shrub. Petiole 4-13 cm long, prickly; leaves ovate, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, oblique-cordate, sinuate to lobed obtuse or acute, 5-13 x 3-10 cm. Inflorescence a sessile or pedunculate cyme; peduncle 0.1 cm with 2-6 flowers. Pedicel 0.5-2 cm long. Calyx divided below the middle, 5-7 mm long, accrescent in fruit up to 1.5 cm, smooth or densely prickly in fruit, prickles 3-7 mm long; stellate-pubescent outside; lobes linear, acute. Corolla 7-8 mm long, stellate-pubescent outside; lobes lanceolate, acute, pale violet to purple. Anthers 5, 1 longer than the rest, sessile, oblong. Ovary globose, stellate-hairy above; style ± equalling corolla, stellate- hairy from base to above the middle, slightly dilated, reflexed at the top. Berry globose, yellow, pendulous, 0.5-1 cm across, included in the enlarged prickly calyx, glaucous. Seeds many, black, shiny, flat, circular.
Saudi Arabia : Southern and western regions.
Distribution : Arabian Peninsula, Tropical Africa and Egypt.