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Solanum tuberosum

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Name

Identification
Solanum tuberosum L. [family SOLANACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Solanum caripense
  • Solanum papita
  • Solanum lycopersicum
  • Solanum tascalense
  • Solanum weberbaueri
  • Solanum subandigenum
  • Solanum longipedicellatum
  • Solanum stoloniferum
  • Solanum leptostigma
  • Solanum cardiophyllum
  • Solanum piurae
  • Solanum tuberosum
  • Solanum polytrichon
Common name
  • potato, English potato, Irish potato., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • dangkálin tuuraawaá (LB) (NIGERIA, HAUSA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • baa (Gregoire) (IVORY COAST, KWENI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • pomme de terre (= apple of the earth)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • dàngálì nàsà (NIGERIA, KANURI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • dànkál làsárá = sweet potato of the whiteman (LB) (NIGERIA, BIROM), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • anyáára banakúú (CG) (MALI, DOGON), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • airish-pεtεtε i.e., Irish potato (FCD) (SIERRA LEONE, KRIO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5

Flora

Entry for SOLANUM tuberosum L. [family SOLANACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 3, (2006) Author: by J. Edmonds (Solanum, species 1–4), I. Friis (Solanum, species 5–11, 13–25), and M. Thulin (Capsicum, Datura, Hyoscyamus, Lycium, Lycopersicon, Nicandra, Nicotiana, Physalis, Solanum species 12, Withania) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
SOLANUM tuberosum L. [family SOLANACEAE], (1753).
Information
Perennial herb with creeping rhizomes carrying tubers, up to c. 1 m high. Leaves alternate, the upper ones smaller; petiole usually short and winged, difficult to distinguish from decurrent part of blade; blade usually imparipinnate with winged rachis, with scattered simple hairs on both sides, primary leaflet-pairs 3–5, the basal ones smaller, usually with interstitial leaflets that are much smaller than the primary ones. Inflorescence lax with c. 10 flowers on forked peduncle; pedicel c. 1–2 cm long, articulate in the middle or upper third. Calyx tubular or broadly campanulate, c. 0.5 cm long, with lanceolate lobes. Corolla rotate, 2.5–3.5 cm in diam., white to mauve. Anthers c. 5 mm long, subsessile or on short filaments. Style exceeding the anthers with 1–2 mm. Fruit up to 2 cm in diam., globose, pale brown when ripe, but fruits are not always produced.
Range
Cultivated for its edible tubers (potatoes) at intermediate altitudes at least in N2 native in the Andes of South America, now grown throughout the world in temperate regions and in the mountains of the tropics.

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