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General information | |
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Bar code | COL000311054 |
Catalog number | 389169 |
Collector | Hermann, Michael |
Collector number | 1641 |
Collection date | Feb. 5, 1998 |
Observations | This plant is called "naranjilla" or "kito-kito". Acording to CiP´s Alberto Salas a native Quechua speaker, "kito-kito" could be a corruption of "jepu-jepu" (pronunced Spanish), an expression often used for strongly pilose plants. The Yanisha speaking population in Tsachopén, 7 km from Oxapampa, has no proper name for this species and uses also "naranjilla". This might indicate that the plant is of recent introduction to the area of Oxapampa. Professor Carlos Ochoa, asked about the etymology of kito-kito wrote this on 22 February 1998: "Solanum quitoense es tambien conocida en algunas localidades del norte y noreste del Departamento de Cajamarca; algo tambien en el Departamento de Amazonas y cerca de Ayabaca en Piura. Hace muchos años fue muy estimada en Pozuzo (Departamento Huánuco) y sus vecindades y tambien en Oxapampa (Huánuco), su distribución más sureña en el Perú. No conozco la etimología de Kito-kito, tal vez no está bien escrita. En quechua existe una palabra K'ita que significa silvestre y K'ita-k'ita asilvestrada." |
Update date | Jan. 14, 2013 |
Taxonomy | |
Kingdom | Plantae |
Phylum | Magnoliophyta |
Class | Magnoliopsida |
Order | Solanales |
Family | Solanaceae |
Genus | Solanum |
Specific epithet | quitoense |
Author | Lam. |
Geographic information | |
Country | PERÚ |
Department | PASCO |
County | OXAPAMPA |
Locality | Oxapampa, Fundo Santa María, in the outskirts of Oxapampa. Prov. Oxapampa, Distrito Oxapampa. |
Minimum height | 1800.0 m |
Maximum height | 1800.0 m |
Latitude (Label) | 10° 35' 29" S |
Longitude (Label) | 75° 23' 22" W |