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Magnoliopsida
Solanum aturense Dunal
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Trepadoras, arbustos o árboles, armados; tallos hispídulos con cerdas duras de 2 a 6 mm. de largo y tricomas estrellados con pedículo corto o sésiles, copiosamente armados con acúleos recurvados, gruesos.
Hojas mayormente en pares subiguales, de lanceoladas a ovadas, de 5 a 15 cm. de largo, ápice agudo, acuminado o redondeado, base obtusa o redondeada, a menudo oblicua, enteras, ambas superficies hirsutas con tricomas estrellados, en la haz los brazos centrales más largos que los laterales, en el envés los brazos casi iguales, nervio principal a menudo armado en el envés; pecíolos hasta 5 cm. de largo, hirsutos, con tricomas estrellados, mayormente armados.
Inflorescencias en racimos simples con 3 a 10 flores, laterales en el tallo, pubescencia estrellada con cerdas ocasionales, pedúnculo de 0,3 a 1,3 cm. de largo, pedicelos de 6 a 15 mm. de largo, estrellado-hirsutos; cáliz de 4 a 6 mm. de largo, estrellado-hirsuto y a menudo aguijonoso, lobulado hasta la mitad de su longitud, lóbulos triangular-acuminados; corola de 30 a 50 mm. de diámetro, blanca, profundamente lobulada, lóbulos angostamente triangulares, tomentosa por fuera; anteras de 10 a 12 mm. de largo.
Fruto tipo baya globosa, de 2 a 3 cm. de diámetro, glabra, roja o anaranjada, pedicelos fructíferos alargados, engrosados y curvados; semillas discoides, de 5 a 6 mm. de diámetro.
Holotype for Solanum mirabile Standl. & C.V. Morton
Catalog Number: US 1324808
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Original publication and alleged type specimen examined
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): A. Tonduz
Year Collected: 1899
Locality: Las Vueltas, Tuccurique., San José, Costa Rica, Central America
Elevation (m): 635 to 635
- Holotype: Standley, P. C. & Morton, C. V. 1938. Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser. 18: 1086.
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Isotype for Solanum siparunoides Ewan
Catalog Number: US 2612001
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Original publication and alleged type specimen examined
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): J. A. Ewan
Year Collected: 1944
Locality: Cordillera Central., Antioquia, Colombia, South America
Elevation (m): 2740
- Isotype: Ewan, J. A. 1952. Nat. Hist. Misc. 94: 1.
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Localidad del tipo: Venezuela
Depositario del tipo: Ht:P
Recolector del tipo: Humboldt & Bonpland s.n. sin fecha
Commonly found in open areas along roadsides.
Bosques húmedos y muy húmedos.
This information is based an ongoing project dedicated to the inventory and dissemination of information on lepidopteran larvae, their host plants, and their parasitoids in a Costa Rican tropical wet forest and an Ecuadorian montane cloud forest.
N=12 herbivore associations as of 2012.
Geometridae: Unknown sp.; N=2.
Nymphalidae: Unknown spp.; N=10.
Sphingidae: Manduca sp.; N=1.
Larval lepidopteran herbivores reared in Napo Province, Ecuador (Yanayacu Biological Station and Center for Creative Studies).
For original publication details of Solanum aturense see: Solan. Syn. 32 32 1816.
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLDS) Stats
Public Records: 0
Specimens with Barcodes: 4
Species With Barcodes: 1
A number of synonyms for the accepted name, Solanum aturense Dunal have been acknowledged by The Plant List.