Volume 38, Number 1, 128-133, DOI: 10.1007/BF02904425

Solatium hygrothermicum , new potato species cultivated in the lowlands of Peru

C. Ochoa

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Abstract

Solanum hygrothermicumOchoa, a new potato species, is described. This species is cultivated by some native inhabitants of the warm humid lowlands of Peru, such as the Campasand Aguarunasin the central Amazon basin and Machigangasin southeastern Peru. Cultivation is limited only to some members of the tribes. The species belongs to series Tuberosaand has 2n = 4x= 48 chromosomes. It is the only potato cultivated under the climatic regime of the warm rainforest in the Peruvian Amazon basin, where it is native. Unfortunately, this rare potato is becoming extinct.

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