This species gives its name to the "Solanum brevicaule complex" which includes about twenty species of morphologically close wild potato species distributed between central Peru and northern Argentina, and are considered by some taxonomists to be the ancestors of the traditional varieties of potatoes grown in the Andean regions.[1]
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^David Spooner. . International Year of the Potato 2008. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 24 October 2011.
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solanum, brevicaule, tuberous, perennial, plant, family, solanaceae, species, native, south, america, argentina, bolivia, peru, related, potato, unlike, potato, which, tetraploid, several, levels, ploidy, diploid, tetraploid, hexaploid, scientific, classificat. Solanum brevicaule is a tuberous perennial plant of the family Solanaceae The species is native to South America Argentina Bolivia and Peru It is related to the potato but unlike the potato which is tetraploid it has several levels of ploidy diploid tetraploid and hexaploid Solanum brevicauleScientific classificationKingdom PlantaeClade TracheophytesClade AngiospermsClade EudicotsClade AsteridsOrder SolanalesFamily SolanaceaeGenus SolanumSpecies S brevicauleBinomial nameSolanum brevicauleBitterThis species gives its name to the Solanum brevicaule complex which includes about twenty species of morphologically close wild potato species distributed between central Peru and northern Argentina and are considered by some taxonomists to be the ancestors of the traditional varieties of potatoes grown in the Andean regions 1 References edit David Spooner Roadmaps to the origins of potato International Year of the Potato 2008 Archived from the original on 2 April 2015 Retrieved 24 October 2011 Solanum brevicaule Bitter Natural History Museum Archived from the original on 2012 08 09 nbsp This Solanales article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Solanum brevicaule amp oldid 1176999997, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
