Solanum brevicaule

Solanum brevicaule
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Solanales
Family:	Solanaceae
Genus:	Solanum
Species:	S. brevicaule
Binomial name
	Solanum brevicaule; Bitter

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.

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]

References

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.

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[1] 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.