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Taxon: Solanum cardiophyllum Lindl.

Genus: Solanum subgenus: Potatoe section: Petota subsection: Potatoe
Family: Solanaceae subfamily: Solanoideae.
Nomen number: 311306
Place of publication: J. Hort. Soc. London 3:70. 1848
Name verified on: 30-Mar-2004 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 14-Jan-2006
Species priority site is: Potato Germplasm Introduction Station (NR6).
Accessions: 12 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.
  • only available ) NPGS core subset accessions for the crop ‘POTATO’ ) or .


SPECIES RESTRICTED BECAUSE STATE NOXIOUS WEED
A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:
CA*.
ªAquatic. *Terrestrial. °In seed.
Link to noxious weed information from Invaders Database System

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Economic importance:

  • Human food: vegetable   (fide L Edible Pl; Potato WR)
  • Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of potato   (fide Potato WR; diploid & 1EBN, and triploid populations fide Handb Potato 26. 2006)
  • Weed   (fide Invaders Database)

Distributional range:

Native:
  • NORTHERN AMERICA
    Northern Mexico: Mexico - Chihuahua, Durango, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Zacatecas
    Central Mexico: Mexico - Aguascalientes, Federal District, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacan, Morelos, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro, Tlaxcala

References:

  • Correll, D. S. 1962. The potato and its wild relatives. Contr. Texas Res. Found., Bot. Stud. 4:1-606. (Potato WR)
  • Hawkes, J. G. 1990. The potato: evolution, biodiversity, and genetic resources. (Potato EGR) 79.
  • Kunkel, G. 1984. Plants for human consumption. (L Edible Pl)
  • Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
  • Rodriguez, A. & D. M. Spooner. 1997. Chloroplast DNA analysis of Solanum bulbocastanum and S. cardiophyllum, and evidence for the distinctiveness of S. cardiophyllum subsp. ehrenbergii (sect. Petota). Syst. Bot. 22:31–43.
  • Spooner, D. M. & A. Salas. 2006. Chapter 1. Structure, biosystematics, and genetic resources. In: Gopal, J. & S. M. Paul Khurana, eds., Handbook of Potato Production, Improvement, and Postharvest Management. (Handb Potato) 1–39.
  • Spooner, D. M. & R. J. Hijmans. 2001. Potato systematics and germplasm collecting, 1989-2000. Amer. J. Potato Res. 78:252.
  • Spooner, D. M. et al. 2000. Potato germplasm collecting expedition to Mexico in 1997: taxonomy and new germplasm resources. Amer. J. Potato Res. 77:262.
  • Spooner, D. M. et al. 2004. Wild potatoes (Solanum section Petota; Solanaceae) of North and Central America. Syst. Bot. Monogr. 68:75.
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Check other databases for Solanum cardiophyllum Lindl.:

  • TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
  • Solanaceae Source: A global taxonomic resource for the nightshade family
  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for images:

  • PlantSystematics.org
  • Google Images Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.
Jump to Solanaceae Genomics Network

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National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?311306 (16 March 2009)

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