It has dark green, spiny leaves and purple flowers and grows in open woodland in south eastern Australia.

Solanum cinereum is a small, upright, sparse, sprawling or bushy, perennial shrub to 1 m (3 ft 3 in) high.

Flowering occurs mostly from spring to autumn and the fruit is a globose-shaped berry, usually 15–20 mm (0.59–0.79 in) in diameter, pale green with darker streaks and turning brown at maturity.

[2][3][4] Solanum cinereum was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown and the description was published in Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae.

[7] Narrawa burr grows in woodland, dry forests and disturbed sites in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and the Australian Capital Territory.