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Taxon:  Solanum tuberosum L.



Summary
Genus:
Solanum
Subgenus:
Potatoe
Section:
Petota
Subsection:
Potatoe
Family:
Solanaceae
Subfamily:
Solanoideae
Tribe:
Solaneae
Nomen number:
103137
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 1:185. 1753
Verified:
05/20/1992 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0 (0  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System. 
Other conspecific taxa
Solanum tuberosum L. subsp. andigenum (Juz. & Bukasov) Hawkes (0 active accession[s])
Solanum tuberosum L. subsp. chiloense (A. DC.) L. I. Kostina (0 active accession[s])
Solanum tuberosum L. subsp. tuberosum (0 active accession[s])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
No images
Reference(s)
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  2. Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin). 2009 Note:
    • based on Alden, B. & S. Ryman. 2005-: SKUD (Swedish Utility and Cultivated Plants Database)
    • http://www.skud.info
  3. Cooper, M. R. & A. W. Johnson. Poisonous plants and fungi in Britain: animal and human poisoning. 1998
  4. Correll, D. S. 1962. The potato and its wild relatives. Contr. Texas Res. Found., Bot. Stud. 4:1-606. 1962 499.
  5. Duke, J. A. et al. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. 2002
  6. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource). Note: http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropListDetails?code=&relation=beginsWith&name=Solanum+tuberosum&quantity=1
  7. Gavrilenko, T. et al. 2013. Genetic diversity and origin of cultivated potatoes based on plastid microsatellite polymorphism. Genet. Resources Crop Evol. 60:1997-2015. http://link.springer.com/journal/volumesAndIssues/10722
  8. Hawkes, J. G. 1963. A revision of the tuber-bearing solanums. II. Rec. Scott. Pl. Breed. Sta. 76-181.
  9. Hawkes, J. G. 1990. The potato: evolution, biodiversity, and genetic resources. 1990 180.
  10. Lee, Y. N. Flora of Korea. 1997
  11. McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. 2000 Note: American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, MD
  12. Mun-Chan, B. et al. 1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants. Kulturpflanze 34:130.
  13. Ochoa, C. M. 1990. The potatoes of South America: Bolivia. 1990 386.
  14. Ovchinnikova, A. et al. 2011. Taxonomy of cultivated potatoes (Solanum section Petota: Solanaceae). Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 165:121-139.
  15. PBI Solanum Project. Solanaceae source: a global taxonomic resource for the nightshade family (on-line resource). http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/projects/solanaceaesource/
  16. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource). http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
  17. Spooner, D. M. & R. J. Hijmans. 2001. Potato systematics and germplasm collecting, 1989-2000. Amer. J. Potato Res. 78:255.
  18. 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.
  19. Symon, D. E. 1981. A revision of the genus Solanum in Australia. J. Adelaide Bot. Gard. 4:1-367.
  20. Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. Flora europaea. 1964-1980
  21. Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. Flora of China (English edition). 1994- http://www.efloras.org/browse.aspx?flora_id=2
Common names
English
potato –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
2Cultivated    widely cult.
2CultivatedAfricaMacaronesiaSpainCanary Islandslandraces
2CultivatedAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndia landraces
2CultivatedNorthern America Mexico landraces
2CultivatedSouthern AmericaMesoamericaCentral America landraces
2CultivatedSouthern AmericaNorthern South AmericaVenezuela s.w. (landraces)
2CultivatedSouthern AmericaSouthern South AmericaArgentina n.w. (landraces)
2CultivatedSouthern AmericaSouthern South AmericaChile landraces
2CultivatedSouthern AmericaWestern South AmericaBolivia landraces
2CultivatedSouthern AmericaWestern South AmericaColombia landraces
2CultivatedSouthern AmericaWestern South AmericaEcuador landraces
2CultivatedSouthern AmericaWestern South AmericaPeru landraces
Cultivated

  • REGION:
Africa
  • MACARONESIA: Spain [Canary Islands (landraces)]
Asia-Tropical
  • INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India (landraces)
Northern America
  • REGION: Mexico (landraces)
Southern America
  • MESOAMERICA: Central America (landraces)
  • NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Venezuela (s.w. (landraces))
  • SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina (n.w. (landraces)), Chile (landraces)
  • WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Bolivia (landraces), Colombia (landraces), Ecuador (landraces), Peru (landraces)
Economic Uses
Medicines
Vertebrate poisons
mammals (fide Cooper & Johnson ed2) –


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