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Biogeographic implications of the striking discovery of a 4,000 kilometer disjunct population of the wild potato Solanum morelliforme in South America

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Title Biogeographic implications of the striking discovery of a 4,000 kilometer disjunct population of the wild potato Solanum morelliforme in South America
 
Creator Simon, R.
Fuentes, A.F.
Spooner, D.M.
 
Subject agriculture
climate
solanum
 
Description Solanum morelliforme is an epiphytic wild potato (Solanum section Petota) species widely distributed throughout central Mexico to Honduras. A strikingly disjunct (approximately 4,000 km) population was recently discovered in Bolivia, representing the first record of this species in South America, and the first species in the section growing in both North and Central America and in South America. Our maximum entropy analysis of 19 climatic variables matches the occurrence of the South American locality with great precision. It demonstrates the strong predictive quality of this procedure and suggests similar localities where this species may be found, especially along the eastern slopes of the Andes in the Yungas region of southern Peru and Bolivia. In addition, the presence of S. morelliforme in South America adds to emerging data from yet other sources to question long-held hypotheses of the origin of section Petota in North and Central America.
 
Date 2011-11-14
2014-08-15T12:13:23Z
2014-08-15T12:13:23Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Simon R, Fuentes AF, Spoone DM. 2011. Biogeographic implications of the striking discovery of a 4,000 kilometer disjunct population of the wild potato Solanum morelliforme in South America. Systematic Botany 36(4):1062-1067.
0363-6445
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/42081
https://doi.org/10.1600/036364411X605065
 
Language en
 
Rights Open Access
 
Publisher American Society of Plant Taxonomists
 
Source Systematic Botany