Solanum hygrothermicum Ochoa (1984:129)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Solanum phureja subsp. hygrothermicum (Ochoa) Hawkes in Potato: Evol. Biodiver. Genet. Resources: 179 (1990)
Invalid (synonym of S. tuberosum) (POWO, 2025)
Conservation Status
Extinct in the Wild (Humphreys et al., 2019) or Invalid (synonym of S. tuberosum) (POWO, 2025)
Distribution & Habitat
Peru
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
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]
National Research Council. (1989). Lost crops of the Incas: 1-415. Washington DC.
Ovchinnikova, A., Krylova, E., Gavrilenko, T., Smekalova, T., Zhuk, M., Knapp, S. and Spooner, D. M. (2011). Taxonomy of cultivated potatoes (Solanum section Petota: Solanaceae). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 165: 107-155.
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]