Jaltomata parviflora S. Leiva & Mione
Peru
revised 17 Apr 2014
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
Arnaldoa 17(1): 33 - 39. 2010.
Link to Jaltomata homepage
Link to table of Jaltomata species of Cajamarca, Peru
Link to table of Jaltomata species of northern Peru
Figure 1. Illustration of Jaltomata parviflora by Segundo Leiva G.
Figure 2, above: Jaltomata parviflora. Photo by Thomas Mione in Peru, collection Mione, Leiva G. and Yacher 739
Figure 3, above: Jaltomata parviflora. Flowers having diminutive anthers have large stigmas (compare the stigmas showing above with that of figure 5 below). Photo by Thomas Mione in Peru, collection Mione, Leiva G. and Yacher 834
Figure 4, above: Jaltomata parviflora. Photo by Thomas Mione in Peru, collection Mione, Leiva G. and Yacher 739
Figure 5, above: Jaltomata parviflora. Photo by Thomas Mione in Peru, collection Mione, Leiva G. and Yacher 834
Figure 6, above: Jaltomata parviflora. Photo by Thomas Mione in Peru, collection Mione, Leiva G. and Yacher 739
Jaltomata parviflora. Photo by Thomas Mione in Peru, collection Leiva G., Mione & Yacher 3642
Jaltomata parviflora. Photo by Thomas Mione in Peru, collection Mione, Leiva G. and Yacher 739


collections of Jaltomata parviflora
Department province locality
elevation
 habitat date collector
Data Entry
Cajamarca San Miguel 7 00.109,
78 50.635
2538
 roadside near other shrubs, see last photo on this page
20 March 2007
 TYPE. S. Leiva, Mione & Yacher 3642 (Holotype HAO: Isotypes CORD, F, HAO, MO)
Oct 2010
         
   
Cajamarca San Miguel 7 00.109,
78 50.635
2538
 roadside near other shrubs, see last photo on this page
20 March 2007
 Mione, Leiva & Yacher 739, same place and time as type collection
Oct 2010
Cajamarca San Miguel 7 00 02 S,
78 50 41 W
2470
no data
18 June 1999
 S. Leiva, Mione & Yacher 2368 = Mione, Leiva & Yacher 667
Oct 2010
Cajamarca San Miguel 7 00.744,
78 50.188
2645
 roadside
27 March 2013
 S. Leiva, Mione & Yacher 5427 = Mione, Leiva & Yacher 834
Mar 2013
Cajamarca San Pablo Sangal-Puente Pucluch
1850
 ladera
4 April 1996

A. Sagástegui A., S. Leiva & E. Aquino 15863
identified as J. parviflora by S. Leiva in an unpublished manuscript but was not mentioned by S. Leiva in the protologue. My thinking, Mar 2014, is that this specimen may represent J. lanata, and if it does, I should change the "local names" webpage where this specimen is cited as J. parviflora
Mar 2014

Morphological data in Mione's field notebook, collection 739, needs to be entered here

Character Description Figures on this page
Habit & Height
   
Branches, young
    
older
   
Leaves, size
   
shape    
hairs    
petiole    
Inflorescence
   
peduncle
    
pedicel
    
Calyx when flowering
6 mm (lobe tip to lobe tip)  
shape / position when flowering    
at fruit maturity    
hairs outer surface pubescent with dendritic hairs  
Corolla color
    
shape and size
 short-tubular, narrowing above the base of the tube, 9 mm from lobe tip to lobe tip  
lobes/lobules
 5  
hairs
outer surface: pubescent, the hairs simple non-gland-tipped; the margin of the lobes ciliate  
Stamen length including anther
 5 mm  
length stamens exserted beyond distal end of corolla (applicable if corolla has a well-defined tube) 0 mm  
no  
base expanded laterally? yes  
filaments villous at base,
the hairs long straight ascending		  
anther color    
anther size    
anther mucronate/mucronulate    
insertion of filament into anther    
anthers of a flower open simultaneously?    
pollen quantity per flower 95,000 (Mione et al. 834, n = 1 flower)
55,500 (Mione et al. 667, n = 1 flower)
0, no pollen in anthers (Mione et al. 739)		 flowers collected in wild, not grown for study
Counts by Christopher L. Chan and Emmett Varricchio
pollen grain size    
corona no  
Stigma
 green, noticably darker than style, capitate, not bilobed but having a very shallow medial groove, exserted one mm beyond the dehisced anthers  
Style
whitish, glabrous, 4 - 4.9 mm  
Ovary
green, the disk orangish and occupying 50 - 60% of the height of the ovary  
Ovules per ovary

66 (Mione et al. 834, n = 1 ovary)
62 (Mione et al. 667, n = 1 ovary)
110 (Mione et al. 739, n = 1 ovary)

 flowers collected in wild, not grown for study
Counts by T. M.
Nectar
 transulcent  
Herkogamy    
Protogyny    
Fruit color (at maturity) and size
   
Seeds per fruit
24
 n = 1 fruit (Mione et al. 834)
Seed Size
 
Chromosome number
no data
  
Growability in Connecticut, USA
no data
  
How long does it take from flower to ripe fruit?
no data
  
Self-Compatible?
no data
  
Seed Germination
no data
  
Ratio of pollen to ovules

1,439 (95,000 / 66, Mione et al 834)
887 (55,500 / 62, Mione et al. 667)
0 (0 / 110 Mione et al. 739)

 flowers collected in wild, not grown for study
Character Description of Jaltomata parviflora Figures on this web page

 

above: Jaltomata parviflora. Smallest units of ruler along bottom are mm.
Photo by Thomas Mione in Peru, collection Mione, Leiva G. and Yacher 834
Jaltomata parviflora. Photo by Thomas Mione in Peru, collection Mione, Leiva G. and Yacher 739
above: Jaltomata parviflora. Photo by Thomas Mione in Peru, collection Mione, Leiva G. and Yacher 834
Jaltomata parviflora. Photo by Thomas Mione in Peru, collection Leiva G., Mione & Yacher 3642
Jaltomata parviflora. Photo by Thomas Mione in Peru, collection Leiva G., Mione & Yacher 3642
above: Corolla has fallen free of the calyx, Jaltomata parviflora. Photo by Thomas Mione in Peru, collection Mione, Leiva G. and Yacher 834
Jaltomata parviflora. Photo by Thomas Mione in Peru, collection Mione, Leiva G. and Yacher 739
Jaltomata parviflora. Photo by Thomas Mione in Peru, collection Mione, Leiva G. and Yacher 739
fruit of Jaltomata parviflora
Jaltomata parviflora. Photo by Thomas Mione in Peru, collection Mione, Leiva G. & Yacher 739
above: Older branch of Jaltomata parviflora. Photo by Thomas Mione in Peru, collection Mione, Leiva G. & Yacher 834
Stems, ground level, of Jaltomata parviflora. Numbered units along top edge of ruler are cm.
Photo by Thomas Mione in Peru, collection Leiva G., Mione & Yacher 3642
above: Immature fruits of Jaltomata parviflora. Units vertically on left are mm.
Photo by Thomas Mione in Peru, collection Mione, Leiva G. and Yacher 834
Segundo Leiva G. at a population of Jaltomata parvifora, photo by Thomas Mione in Peru, collection Leiva G., Mione & Yacher 3642