Solanum incanum L.  

name: Solanum incanum L

family: Solanaceae

Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Tracheophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Asteridae
Order: Solanales
Family: Solanaceae
2500 species in 90 genera
Distribution: Africa, Arabian Peninsula, Pakistan and India.
Habit: Prickly shrub, prickles stout, sharp.
Leaves: Solitary or paired, if paired then the upper unsexual (staminate) and the
lower bisexual; pedicel short
Inflorescences: Ebracteate, actinomorphic or zygomorphic, usually 5-merous, bisexual, rarely unisexual (as in some Withania spp.).

Flowers:
Calyx 5-parted, slightly accrescent and becoming hard in fruit, lobes triangular, unarmed or
in fruit prickly.
Corolla violet or purple, lobes lanceolate, densley stellate-tomentose outside, sparsely
stellate-hairy on the central line. Anthers yellowish to purplish, sessile,oblong.
Ovary globose, glabrous; style longer than stamens, stellate-hairy below. Berry globose,
glabrous, yellow.

Saudi Arabia: Southern and western regions, Asir.