Ancash, Peru's Jaltomata spp

Jaltomata (Solanaceae) of the Department Ancash, Peru

revised 15 July 2017

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The information on this page may be cited as a communication with
professor Thomas Mione, Central Connecticut State University, Biology Department, Copernicus Hall, 1615 Stanley Street, New Britain, CT 06050-4010 USA, and
Segundo Leiva G., Universidad Privada Antenor Orrego, Av. América Sur 3145, Casilla postal 1075, Trujillo, Peru

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Lima, Peru

Link to the Jaltomata of lomas formations

Link to Jaltomata having red / orange nectar

Link to chromosome counts

front view		habit	flowers per inflorescence	corolla color	corolla having 5 pairs of green spots	Endemic to Dept Ancash	common or rare in Dept Ancash?	side view	corona ?
	J. propinqua	shrub	to 10	purple	yes	yes	common in certain places, overall rare		no
	J. sinuosa**	shrub			yes	no			no
	J. lomana	shrub	5- to 7-flowered	whitish with purple ring where tube meets limb	yes (not mentioned in the protologue!)	yes			no
	J. cajacayensis	shrub	6- to 14-flowered	limb dull olive green; narrow purple ring surrounding mouth of tube evident in photo	yes	yes			no
	J. andersonii	herbaceous (perennial?)	1	purple (brown and whitish green on one specimen)	yes, visible in the photo	no			no
	J. aijana	shrub	2 - 4 (-6 including buds)	green	no	yes	common		no
	J. weberbaueri	shrub	1, less commonly 2 (uncommonly to 3 with one of these being a flower and two being buds)	purple or violet	no	yes			no
	J. pallascana	shrub	1 - 2	green	no	yes			no
	J. calliantha	suffrutescent	1, less commonly 2	green	ring of darker green spots at the base of the corolla	no	rare		yes
	J. angasmarcae J. anteropilosa	shrub	3 - 8 (3 - 5 in protologue) 8 - 13	whitish with purple ring near petal's midlength	yes, visible in the photo	no			no
	"J. pequenita"	shrub	probably 4*	whitish with purple ring where tube meets limb	yes, visible in the photo	yes			no
	J. yungayensis	shrub	4- to 11-flowered	purple with a pale green throat	yes	no			no
	species	habit	flowers per inflorescence	corolla color	corolla having 5 pairs of green spots	Endemic to Dept Ancash			corona ?

*insufficient specimens(s) for study

** J. sinuosa is known in Department Ancash from only one specimen that lacked flowers and fruits and consequently the specimen has not been definitevely identified.

The following table was replaced by the table above.

	J. yungayensis	J. lomana	J. cajacayensis	J. andersonii		J. weberbaueri	J. pallascana	J. angasmarcae	unpublished working name "J. pequenita"
Plant Height	to 2.3 m	80 cm	to 1.1 m	20 cm	to 2.3 m	to 2 m		0.8 m
Corolla Shape and Size (size when pressed)	campanulate to rotate, 11.5 - 15.5 mm diam	short-tubular with a spreading limb, the tube 1.6 X 4 mm at base, the limb11-14 mm diam.	short-tubular with a reflexed limb. Tube 2 X 6.5-8 mm; limb 10.3 - 19.2 mm diam.	broadly crateriform-rotate; to 3.7 cm across	tubular with planar limb as shown above, 2 - 3 cm long	campanulate to rotate, to 6 cm across		short-tubular with a rotate limb
elevation (m)	(2,958) 3,000 - 4,150	450 - 650	2,400 - 2,639	2,300 - 3,400	2,945 - 3,820	(3,000-) 3,400 - 3,800		2,450 - 2,750
Both pedicel and peduncle?	yes	yes	yes	no, single unarticulated axis	yes	yes		yes
Hairs	Young axes, peduncles, pedicels, leaves, and abax calyx puberulent with branchlet and finger hairs to 0.15 mm long.	young axes, peduncles, pedicels, leaves and calyx nealy glabrous	young exes, peduncles, pedicels, and abax calyx villous with erect, gland-tipped finger hairs to 3 mm	soft, gland-tipped	glabrate or sparsely hairy with non-gland-tipped finger and dendritic hairs	glabrous (except for base of filament and adax face of corolla)		not gland-tipped, mostly finger but some have multiple termini

	yungayensis	lomana	cajacayensis	andersonii		weberbaueri	pallascana	J. angasmarcae	unpublished working name "pequenita"
Stamen Length (mm)	2.8 - 3.9	5.5 - 6.5	7	6.9 - 7.2 mm	26 - 36	19.5 - 24
Filaments	villous on proximal 1/5th	villous on proximal 1/2	villous on proximal 4/5th	filaments extremely villous at base	villous on proximal 1/4th	hairy on proximal 1/10th to 1/5th
Anther color	cream	no data	cream	drying brown (or yellow if covered with pollen)	blue to purple	blue-purple	yellow,	purple or cream in nearby populations
nectar color	clear	no data	clear	clear	clear	red-orange	red-orange	clear
Fruit Color	orange	no data	said to be orange	probably orange	orange	orange	orange	orange
Fruit Eaten?	no	no data	yes	no data	yes	yes
Common? Rare?	closer to common than rare	rare	locally common	rare in department Ancash	common	uncommon to rare	common	common

	J. yungayensis	J. lomana	J. cajacayensis	J. andersonii		J. weberbaueri	J. pallascana	J. angasmarcae	unpublished working name "pequenita"
Synonyms	none	none	none	none	Hebecladus bicolor (R. & P.) Miers. H. biflorus (R. & P.) Miers. H. intermedius Miers H. weberbaueri Dammer	Saracha weberbaueri Dammer		Hebecladus weberbaueri Bitter	none
Sources	Mione et al. 2000	Mione et al. 2000	Mione et al. 2000	Mione, Leiva G. & Yacher 2004	Mione et al. 1993; Mione 2001	Mione & Coe 1992; Mione & Granda 2006	fieldwork done May 2008	fieldwork by T. M., S. L. G. & L. Yacher	fieldwork done May 2008
in this table photo or illustration by	T. Mione	S. Leiva G.	T. Mione	T. Mione	T. Mione	T. Mione	T. Mione	T. Mione	T. Mione
T. Mione, S. Leiva G. & Yacher collection numbers	628, 629, 630, 723, 724	631	624, 729	616, 620,622	612, 617, 625, 627, 726, 728	626, 725	783, 790, 791	780, 781, see also J. angasmarcae's web page	782
Page Number in Brako and Zarucchi	this sp. had not been described when I contributed to this work	this sp. had not been described when I contributed to this work	this sp. had not been described when I contributed to this work	this sp. had not been described when I contributed to this work	page 1107	page 1108	page 1108, as a synonym of J. weberbaueri	this sp. had not been described when I contributed to this work	this sp. had not been described when I contributed to this work
Page Number(s) in Macbride 1962	this sp. was not described	what is now the type specimen of this sp. was then considered to represent Saracha dentata on page 34	this sp. was not described	this sp. was not described	pages 30-31 as Hebecladus bicolor; page 35 as H. intermedius	page 40 as Saracha weberbaueri	page 40 as a synonym of Saracha weberbaueri	this sp. was not described	this sp. was not described

Key (needs revision given the discovery of several more species during fieldwork) to the Jaltomata of Department Ancash, Peru:

1. Having a corona........ J. calliantha
1. Not having a corona .........................2.

2. Stamens longer than 15 mm...................... 3.
2. Stamens shorter than 15 mm . . . . . . . . . . . 4.

3. Corolla tubular . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J. aijana
3. Corolla campanulate to rotate . . . . . J. weberbaueri

4. Flowers solitary, single unarticulated axis instead of peduncle and pedicel . . . . . J. andersonii
4. Flowers per inflorescence greater than one, both peduncle and pedicel present. . . . . 5.

5. Corolla campanulate to rotate, filaments villous along less than proximal half. . . . . . J. yungayensis
5. Corolla proximally short-tubular, filaments villous at least on proximal one-half . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.

6. Plant hairy. . . . . . . . . . . . . J. cajacayensis
6. Plant glabrous . . . . . . . . . . . J. lomana

Comparison With Department Lima: The department of Lima borders the department of Ancash on Ancash's south side. Two of the species are shared by these two departments (J. andersonii, J. propinqua). Only one specimen of J. andersonii has been collected in the department of Ancash.

At one time I regarded J. bicolor as growing in both department Ancash and in Department Lima. The populations of the department of Ancash are now correctly identified as J. aijana (Mione et al. ).

Red-Orange Nectar: In the Department of Ancash J. calliantha, J. pallascana and J. weberbaueri produce red-orange nectar. Click here for a table of Jaltomata species having red to orange nectar.

Islands: One of these species (J. lomana) may be viewed as growing on a virtual island (lomas). Two additional Jaltomata species grow on oceanic islands, J. antillana (Greater Antilles) and J. werffii (Galápagos Islands).

Literature Cited
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Acknowledgements: I thank Segundo Leiva G. and Leon Yacher for collaboration. David Spooner sent T. M. his specimens. Gregory J. Anderson and Gabriel Bernardello provided an environment that was conducive to the birth of this project.