Jaltomata nitida (Bitter) Mione

Venezuela and Colombia
updated Aug 2023  
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Colombia and Venezuela
Jaltomata nitida pressed specimen (isotype)

Distribution: Venezuela and Colombia


Habitat: This species has been collected along a highway and in a primary jungle.


Altitude: 1700 - 2500 m


Flowering and fruiting in June, August, October and December


J. nitida specimens studied
country department locality elevation m habitat date collector data entry
Venezuela Aragua on old dirt rd to beach on W side of main rd from La Victoria to Colonia Tovar, beginning ca 3 km S of Colonia Tovar 1,700 in primary jungle 21 August 1992 D. M. Spooner, J. Ignacio Román, J. Brendemba 6301 (WIS) November 2018
Colombia Santander Eastern Cordillera, between Piedecuesta and Las Vegas 2,000 - 2,500 wooded bank 19 - 24 December 1926 E. P. Killip & A. C. Smith 15544 (NY, US)
September 2010

 

Character Description Additional notes, or figures on this page
Habit & Height
   
Branches, young
   
older
   
Leaves, size
   
blade shape including margin    
blade texture    
hairs    
petiole    
Inflorescence
   
peduncle
   
pedicel
   
Calyx when flowering (color, size)
   
shape / position during anthesis    
hairs    
at fruit maturity    
Corolla color
   
green spots    
purple ring    
purple in base of corolla    
shape and size
   
lobes / lobules
   
hairs
   
   
Corona
no  
Stamen length including anther
   
length stamens exserted beyond distal end of corolla (applicable if corolla is tubular or campanulate)    
position of stamens: a) before anthers dehisce, b) after anthers dehisce    
base expanded laterally?    
filaments glabrous
from both protologue and Mione's dissection of flower of Spooner's Venezuela specimen
anther color    
anther size    
anther mucronate/mucronulate    
insertion of filament into anther    
anthers of a flower with temporally staggered dehiscence?    
pollen quantity per flower    
pollen grain size    
Gynoecium, stigma
   
Style
   
Ovary & Ovarian Disk    
Nectar
   
Herkogamy    
Protogyny    
Fruit color at maturity
orange (from protologue "aurantiaca")  
Fruit Size and Seeds per fruit    
Seed Size
 
Character Description of Jaltomata nitida Figures on this web page

 

 

 

 

 

comparison of three similar Andean Jaltomata species
  auriculata nitida sanctae-martae
country of type specimen Colombia Venezuela  
filaments the slender part pubescent on basal 1/2 - 2/3 of the length with unpigmented finger trichomes to 1 mm long;
lower half hairy(illustration in protologue)
glabrous
protologue "filamentorum...glaberrimi";
Spooner 1601 collected at type locality has glabrous filaments
 
       
fruit color at maturity red orange ("aurantiacum" in protologue)  
flowers per inflor to 6 3 - 4 in protologue, but Spooner 1601 (collected at type locality) has an inflorescence having 6 flowers  
elevation of type specimen   1700 m (from Spooner's 1601 collected at type locality)  

 

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