Jaltomata unpublished "tablachaca" Peru 
Link to the Jaltomata of Ancash and La Libertad, Peru
 The information on this page may be cited as a communication with professor Thomas Mione, Central Connecticut State University, Biology Department, Copernicus Hall, 1615 Stanley Street, New Britain, Connecticut 06050-4010, United States of America.
   
Flower and Fruit. Note that two anthers have dehisced and three are undehisced. Ripe berry is orange. Arrows point to calyx lobes (photo by Mione, Mione 781)
Flower in side view. Note that the tubular part of the flower increases in diameter from proximal to distal. Arrow points to stigma (photo by Mione, Mione 780).
 
 Back of flower (Photo by Mione, Mione 780)
White bar across top of photo is a 15 cm ruler resting on the plant
(Photo by Mione, Mione 780)
 
 Ripe fruit on left, and leaf (Photo by Segundo Leiva G., Leiva 4425 = Mione 780)
Flower having dehisced anthers. Note how filaments angle away from style, creating a spatial separation of the anthers and stigma (Photo by Mione, Mione 780).
 
 Older stem. Unripe (green) fruit with calyx in upper left
(Photo by Mione, Mione 781)
Roadside Habitat, full sun. White ruler (15 cm long) was placed horizontally in plant and can be seen in this photo. Many orange fruits had fallen on the ground below this plant (photo by Mione, Mione 781)
 
 Flower. Two anthers have dehisced, three remain undehisced as in figure 1. Filaments villous along lower half, the hairs unpigmented (photo by Mione, Mione 780)
Fruits are orange when ripe (photo by Mione, Mione 781).

Marked Style Length Variation Observed
At the populations shown in the photos above, the stigma was at about the height of the dehisced anthers and the style was about 6 mm long. In contrast, when I grew seeds from collection 649 in Connecticut, the flowers grew long styles having the stigma exserted 4 mm beyond the anthers; the style was about twice as long as seen in collections 780 & 781 (photos above). Here growing conditions and collection number were both different, so the style length difference observed may be due to genetics, may be due to environmental growing conditions, or may be attributable to both.

Character description
Habit & Height Woody shrub to about 80 cm high, growing in full sun or very little shade
Young axes pubescent, the hairs non-gland-tipped, mostly finger hairs but a few have multiple termini
Woody axes Round in cross section, to about 1 cm in diameter (figure 7).
Leaves (figure 5); pubescent, the hairs non-gland-tipped mostly finger hairs but a few have multiple termini
Flowers Per Inflorescence 5 including buds
Peduncle & Pedicel pubescent, the hairs non-gland-tipped
Calyx (figure 3)
Corolla short-tubular, the tube increasing in diameter distally (figure 2), with a rotate limb. 10 green maculae (figures 1, 2, 6, 9) in throat, giving flower a green throat. Purple ring where tube meets limb.
Corolla lobes/lobules 5 lobes and 5 lobules alternating (figures 2, 3, 9 and cultivated plants of 649 not shown) but not always evident in any one view (figure 1)
Radial Cor Thickenings No
Flowers remain open at night? No data
Stamens Angle away from style; filaments villous, the hairs unpigmented (figure 9)
Anther length & color In population 780 the athers were purple (figure 9). In contrast, in population 781 the anthers were cream-colored (figure 1).
Pollen Quantity  
Disk around ovary disk is about 50% of the total ovary height
Ovules per ovary  
Style length 5.2 to 6.5 mm* or 11.7 mm (on cultivated plants of 649)
Stigma 0.57 mm perpendicular to length*, figures 2 & 6; at height of dehisced anthers on field-studied flowers (780, 781) and exserted 4 mm beyond anthers on cultivated plants of 649.
Gynoecium glabrous except for microscopic stigma papillae
Nectar transparent
Herkogamy? yes to some extent (figure 6)
Fruit: color (at maturity) and size orange (figure 10), 7 X 9 mm (fresh not pressed, 781); 8 X 10 mm (fresh not pressed, 649)
Seeds 91 per fruit from one fruit 8 X 10 mm (781), 50 per fruit from one fruit of size 7 X 9 mm (781); 54 and 71 seeds per fruit (649)

*(collection 780, flower placed in 70% ethanol at place/time of collection, and measured with dissecting microscope in Connecticut)

Geographic and Altitudinal Distribution:

Peru, Department
Province		 Locality elevation habitat date collector Data
Entry
La Libertad
Santiago de Chuco 		Angasmarca
2750 m
  13 June 1999 Mione, Leiva & Yacher 649 =
Leiva, Mione & Yacher 2342 (HAO)
July 2008
Ancash
Pallasca
Rio Tablachaca
08 16' 44.1, 78 02' 08.7
2667 m
roadside 18 May 2008 Mione, Leiva & Yacher 780 =
Leiva, Mione & Yacher 4425 (HAO)
July 2008
Ancash
Pallasca 		Rio Tablachaca
08 12' 35.3, 77 56' 50.4
2453 m
roadside, full sun 18 May 2008 Mione, Leiva & Yacher 781 =
Leiva, Mione & Yacher 4427 (HAO)
July 2008