J. Edmonds & I Friis (2006) Solanum 3: 206-219

Plants shrubs 1-2 m tall. Stems, when young, usually completely covered with grey stellate tomentum, when older having brown bark/ Leaves alternate, of comparable size on all parts of the plant; petioles 0.5-1(-3) cm long, grey tomentose with stellate hairs; blades elliptic, 1.8-5 cm long, 0.9-2(-5) cm wide, somewhat leathery, bases usually cuneate, margins entire, tops actue, acuminate, or rounded, lower surfaces with scattered stellate heirs, becoming glabrescent, upper surfaces glabrescent. Inflorescences at first appearing terminal, becoming lateral, raceme-like, rarely bases 2-branched, with up to 20 flowers but only a few fruits developing per inflorescence; peduncles 0.6-1.5 cm long. Flowers pedicellate; pedicels 0.8-1.5 cm long, grey tomentose, slightly elongating in fruit. Calyces 2-4 mm long, with narrowly triangular acuminate lobes, enlarged in fruit; corollas initally campanulate, becoming rotate or stellate, about 3.5 cm in diameter, lobes abruptly acuminate; anthers  differing in size, 4 6-7 mm long, one about 11 mm long, with incurved tip; styles about 12 mm long, exceeding the longest anther by 2-3 mm, tips reflexed. Fruits orange, globose, 1-15. cm in diameter.

Solanum somalense grows acacia-Commiphora bushland at 50-1800 m. It is known from regions N1-3, C2, and S1-3 of the Flora of Somalia, eastern Ethiopia, and Kenya.  

Awale & Jama (2018). Hordhaca dhirta badhtamaha Soomaalilaand.

Geed gaab, illaa 1.5 m ah. Caleemo talantaalli ah oo leh samay gaaban, iyo baabaco gammuuran, oo saan u yara eeg, hareerahana ka siman. Ubax soosali ah ama caddaan ah oo leh laaceyaal dabacsan. Midho cad wareegsan ah, oo cagaar inta ay ka tagaan huruud isku beddelaya.

Sabo: Inta badan caadi ka ah dhul dhireedka, joog ah illaa 1800 m.

Filiqsanaanta: Itoobiya iyo Kiiniya.

H. Pickering & A.I. Awale (2018) Introduction to the plants of Central Somaliland

Habit: shrubs 1-2 m tall with young stems densely covered with stellate hairs, older stems with brown bark.

Leaves alternate, simple, 0.9-1(-3) cm long, with entire margins.

Inflorescences becoming lateral, with up to 20 flowers but only a few set fruit.

Flowers about 3.5 cm in diameter, with 5 anthers, one much longer than the others, styles exceeding the anthers and recurved.

Fruits orange, globose berries 1-1.5 cm across. 

Solanum somalense grows acacia-Commiphora bushland at 50-1800 m.