Plants unarmed shrubs up to 1.5 m tall, somewhat scrambling; young parts pubescent with small stellate hairs or more or less glabrescent. Leaves alternate, all on a branch similar in size; petioles 1.5-3.5 cm long; blades ovate, 3.5-12.5 cm long, 2-8 cmwide, entire, glabrescent to densely pubescent with stellate hairs, bases uually obliquely cuneate to truncate, less frequently subcordate, margins straight, tips acute to acuminate. Inflorescences usually umbel-like, with 10-30 flowers, with glandular hairs; peduncles 0.5-2 cm long; pedicels 1-1.5 cm long in flower, elongating in fruit to at least 2.5 cm. Calyces up to 6 mm long, with campanulate base about 1-1.5 mm long and lobes narrowly triangular and acuminate tipped to nearly linear, up to 8 mm long; corollas pale mauve, about 1.5 cm in diameter; anthers 3-4 mm long, on short filaments; styles exceeding the anthers by 1-2 mm. Fruits red, becoming almost black, about 6 mm in diameter.
Solanum schimperianum grows in Juniperus forests, evergreen bushland, and deciduous acacia bushland, often in disturbed places at 1400-2000 m. It is known from regions N1-2 of the Flora of Somalia and From southern Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Yemen.
Habit: unarmed shrubs to 1.5 m tall, sometimes scrambling, young shoots with small stellate hairs, becomg glabrescent.
Leaveswith ovate blades 3.5-12.5 cm long, 2-8 cm wide with entire margins.
Inflorescences usually umbel-like, with 10-30 flowers, with glandular hairs.
Flowers pale mauve, about 1.5 cm in diameter; anthers all 3-4 mm long.
Fruits red, becoming almost black, about 6 mm in diameter.
Solanum schimperianum grows in Juniperus forests, evergreen bushland, and deciduous acacia bushland, often in disturbed places, at 1400-2000 m