M. Thulin(2006) Withania in Flora of Somalia 3: 202-205
Plants woody based herbs or subshrubs, with ascending stems up to 40 cm long; stems whitish or greyish tomentose. Leaves petiolate; petioles 3-5 mm long; blades lanceolate-oblon, 1-5 cm long, 0.4-0.5 cm wide, bases narrowly cuneate and more or less oblique, margins entire, tips acute, both surfaces tomentose. Inflorescences of solitary, acillary flowers. Flowers: pedicels 2-6 mm long, tomentose; calyces 3-4 mm long in flower, emlargint to 10-14 mm long in fruit, tomentose externally, lobes triangular, acute, about 1.5 mm long in flower, shorter than to about as long as the tubes; corollas greenish, about 5-6 mm long, thinly tomentose outside, lobeds striangular, shorter than the tubes; stamens with filaments about 3 mm ong, anthers about 1 mm long; ovaries without obvious disk at the base; styles about 2 mm long. Berries globose, about 10 mm in diameter, yellow to orange-red, surround and slightly exceeded by the enlarged and rounded calyses; seeds about 2 mm in diameter, almost smooth.
Withania sphaerocarpa grows in open, silty, stony, or sandy ground, often on roadsides or along water courses, at 7301500 m. It is know frm regions N1-3 of the Flora of Somalia and from eastern Ethiopia.
Habit: subshrubs with acending branches up to 40 cm long and codvered in whitish or greyish hairs.
Leaves: simple, oblong, with entire margins and hairy on both surfaces.
Inflorescences: of solitary axillary flowers.
Flowers: radially symmetric, with 5 greenish lobes, up to 10 mm across.
Fruits round, yellow to orange berrires almost completely concealed by the enarged calyces.
Withania sphaerocarpa grows in open, silty, stony, or sandy ground, often on roadsides or along water courses, at 7301500 m. It is know from regions N1-3 of the Flora of Somalia and from eastern Ethiopia.