Jaltomata biflora (Ruiz & Pav.) Benítez (1976:91)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Saracha biflora Ruiz & Pav. in Fl. Peruv. 2: 42 (1799); Bellinia biflora (Ruiz & Pav.) Roemer & Schultes in Syst. Veg. 4: 689 (1819); Witheringia biflora (Ruiz & Pav.) Miers in Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist. (2) 11: 92 (1853)
Conservation Status
Last record: late 1700's (Mione & Mugaburu, 1996:74; Mione et al., 2001) or later
Rediscovered in: May 1996 (Mione & Mugaburu, 1996:75)
Distribution & Habitat
Peru
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Ruiz, H. and Pavón, J. (1799). Florae Peruvianae et Chilensis 2.
Other references:
Brako, L. and Zarucchi, J. L. (1993). Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Gymnosperms of Peru. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 45: i-xl, 1-1286. Missouri Botanical Garden.
Mione, Thomas and Mugaburu, Daniel. (1996). Rediscovery of Jaltomata biflora in Peru. Solanaceae Newsletter 4(2): 74-75.
Mione, Thomas, Mugaburu, Daniel and Connolly, Bryan. (2001). Rediscovery and floral biology of Jaltomata biflora (Solanaceae). Economic Botany 55(1): 167-168.
Mione, Thomas and Serazo, L. A. (1999). Jaltomata lojae (Solanaceae): Description and floral biology of a new Andean species. Rhodora 101: 136-142.
POWO. (2025). Plants of the World Online (online resource). Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 13 July 2025]
Ruiz, H. Relación del viaje. (1931). Travels of Ruiz, Pavon, and Dombey in Peru and Chile. Edited and annotated by A. J. Barreiro, Madrid. English translation by B. E. Dahlgren. Botanical Series, Field Museum of Natural History, vol. 21.