Jaltomata Schltdl.
Creators: name: Flores-Sánchez, Ignacio Darío
name: Sandoval-Villa, Manuel
name: Uscanga-Mortera, Ebandro
name: Silva-Rojas, Hilda Victoria
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Solanales
Solanaceae
Jaltomata

description: Key to the species of Jaltomata of Mexico (based on Mione & Spooner 2010)
1a. Anthers unequal in size, most noticeable during the pistillate phase while anthers are undehisced; filaments sigmoid or curved during hermaphroditic phase; style curved; habitat in coffee plantations and roadsides ......................................... J. repandidentata
1b. Anthers equal in size; filaments straight during hermaphroditic phase; style straight; habitat variable, including agricultural fields and other disturbed areas ....................................................................................................................................................................2
2a. Calyx lobes concave in cross section; calyx purple at time of flowering, ˂ 6.8 mm diam ............................................... J. bohsiana
2b. Calyx lobes plane to reflexed in cross section; calyx mostly green at time of flowering, ˃ 7 mm diam............................................3
3a. Anthers longer than 2.8 mm; leaves and branches densely velutinous ......................................................................... J. grandiflora
3b. Anthers shorter than 2.8 mm; leaves and branches glabrate to pubescent or hirsute.........................................................................4
4a. Vestiture of stems and leaves variable (including glabrate) but never hirsute; habit erect; corolla 5-lobed or with alternating lobes and lobules totaling 10; flowers per inflorescence up to 18 flowers; colour of fruit black or dark purple when ripe; Arizona, United States, to Ecuador ......................................................................................................................................................... J. procumbens
4b. Vestiture of stems and leaves glabrate to hirsute; habit prostrate or decumbent; colour of fruit black or green when ripe; corolla 5-lobed; flowers per inflorescence less than 5 ...................................................................................................................................5
5a. Stems and leaves hirsute; habit prostrate; corolla pale green, 5 attenuate lobes; inflorescence up to 4-flowered; obtuse or obtuseacuminatecalyx; plants with fruit colour purple or green when ripe; northern Mexico ............................................ J. chihuahuensis
5b. Leaves glabrate and vestiture of stems variable (including glabrate) but never hirsute; habit prostrate or decumbent; corolla pale yellow, and dark green flower base with a ring appearance, 5 pyramidal lobes; inflorescence up to 3-flowered; pyramidal-shaped calyx; pale green fruit with few dark green or purple vertical lines when ripe, with a slight purple spot on one side of the fruit; associated with agricultural fields; Central Highland Valley of Mexico ............................................................................. J. tlaxcala
description: Published as part of Flores-Sánchez, Ignacio Darío, Sandoval-Villa, Manuel, Uscanga-Mortera, Ebandro & Silva-Rojas, Hilda Victoria, 2024, Jaltomata tlaxcala, a new species of the genus Jaltomata (Solanaceae, Solanoideae, Solaneae), pp. 85-98 in Phytotaxa 641 (2) on page 96, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.641.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13213804