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
Jaltomata nitida (Bitter) Mione |
Venezuela and Colombia |
updated Aug 2023 |
| Link to Jaltomata homepage | 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, Connecticut 06050-4010, United States of America | Link to the Jaltomata of Colombia and Venezuela |
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Distribution: Venezuela and Colombia
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| country | department | locality | elevation m | habitat | date | collector | data entry |
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| 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 |
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Branches, young |
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older |
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Leaves, size |
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| blade shape including margin | ||
| blade texture | ||
| hairs | ||
| petiole | ||
Inflorescence |
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peduncle |
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pedicel |
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Calyx when flowering
(color, size) |
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| shape / position during anthesis | ||
| hairs | ||
| at fruit maturity | ||
Corolla color |
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| green spots | ||
| purple ring | ||
| purple in base of corolla | ||
shape and size |
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lobes / lobules |
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hairs
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Stamen length including anther |
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| 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 |
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Style |
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| Ovary & Ovarian Disk | ||
Nectar |
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| Herkogamy | ||
| Protogyny | ||
Fruit color at maturity |
orange (from protologue "aurantiaca") | |
| Fruit Size and Seeds per fruit | ||
Seed Size |
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| Character | Description of Jaltomata nitida | Figures on this web page |
| auriculata | nitida | sanctae-martae | |
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| 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 |
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| 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) |