Common Name

Lagoon Nightshade

Family

Solanaceae

Notes

Perennial or biennial forb to 30cm tall or sprawling. Reddish prickles on the branches, leaf stalks, leaves, and stalks and calyces of the flowers. Leaves 1-9cm long, 5-30mm wide, flat, hairless on the upper surface, hairy below, margins lobed. Flowers blue to purple, with a short tube and 4-5 spreading lobes, in clusters of 4-10 flowers on stalks arising from along the stems or from the tops of the stems. Berry yellow, semi-succulent. Vulnerable Vic.

Description and photo in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales pages 592-593

PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Solanum~lacunarium

Online fact sheet with photo, published by the South Australian Herbarium: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/efsa/lucid/Solanaceae/Solanum%20species/key/Australian%20Solanum%20species/Media/Html/Solanum_lacunarium.htm