Solanum villosum Mill.

Unarmed annual with ± erect stems to c. 40 cm tall, much-branched and somewhat bushy, moderately hairy, especially on young parts; hairs simple, of 2 types: antrorse, subappressed and scattered or short, erect, and glandular; stems often black. Petioles < 2 cm long. Lamina to 7 × 5 cm, broadly ovate or elliptic-ovate, becoming glabrate above, remaining hairy beneath, especially towards base, usually shallowly and sinuately lobed or with 1–2 teeth each side, less often entire; margins with dense simple hairs and numerous glandular hairs; base broad-cuneate; apex acute. Cymes pseudoumbellate, with up to 6 fls; peduncles to c. 10 mm long at anthesis, densely covered in antrorse hairs and a few glandular ones; pedicels ± recurved at fruiting. Calyx 1–2 mm long; lobes ovate or triangular-ovate, becoming reflexed, somewhat accrescent. Corolla 8–11 mm diam., white; lobes ± triangular, densely hairy outside. Anthers 1.7–2 mm long. Berry 6–10 mm diam., globose or nearly so, reddish or orange-yellow; stone cells 0. Seeds 1.8–2.2 mm diam., obovoid to ± ellipsoid or almost reniform.

[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]

Flowering: Nov.–Mar.