Solanum cajamarquense Ochoa (1959:311)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Rediscovered [by implication] (see below)
Previously considered Extinct in the Wild (Brako & Zarucchi, 1993 fide Humphreys et al., 2019). Now known to be extant in the wild (Knapp & Gonzales Arce, 2020), and thus qualifies as Rediscovered by implication.
Distribution & Habitat
Cajamarca, Peru
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
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.
Humphreys, Aelys M., Govaerts, Rafaël, Ficinski, Sarah Z., Lughadha, Eimear Nic and Vorontsova, Maria S. (2019). Global dataset shows geography and life form predict modern plant extinction and rediscovery. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3: 1043-1047. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0906-2 [Supplementary Dataset 1]
Knapp, S. and Gonzales Arce, P. (2020). Solanum cajamarquense. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T71780653A71780913. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T71780653A71780913.en. Accessed on 13 July 2025.
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]
Spooner, D. M., Jansky, S., Rodríguez, F., Simon, R., Ames, M., Fajardo, D. and Castillo, R. O. (2019). Taxonomy of wild potatoes in Northern South America (Solanum section Petota). Systematic Botany Monographs 108: 1-305.
Walter, Kerry S. and Gillett, Harriet J. (eds.). (1998). 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants. Compiled by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Gland, Switzerland & Cambridge, UK: IUCN – The World Conservation Union. lxiv + 862 pp.