Abstract

The largest concentration of wild tuber-bearingSolanums in the Western Hemisphere is located in the Andean region of Peru. However, in spite of the many potato collecting expeditions which have carried out extensive field work in the past, there still remain new species to be presented to science for the first time.Solanum antacochense, from the series tuberosa, a diploid species (2n = 2x = 24 chromosomes) native to Peru described here, is one of them.

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