Global InformationJaltomata procumbens information
| Jaltomata procumbens | |
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| Jaltomata procumbens flower | |
Conservation status
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Solanales |
| Family: | Solanaceae |
| Genus: | Jaltomata |
| Species: | J. procumbens
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| Jaltomata procumbens (Cav.) J.L.Gentry
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Jaltomata procumbens, the creeping false holly,[3] is a plant species native to Arizona, USA, Mexico, Central America, Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela. It grows as a weed in agricultural fields and other disturbed locations, but in many places the people protect it because of the edible fruits it produces.[4][5][6][7][8][9][10]
Jaltomata procumbens is a spreading, trailing to ascending herb forming many shoots from a single root. Leaves are broadly lanceolate, up to 20 cm long, dark green. Flowers are rotate, pale yellow-green with darker green spots toward the center. Berries are dark purple, spherical, about 1 cm in diameter, with a strong scent resembling that of grapes (Vitis spp.). [11][12]
- ^ "NatureServe Explorer 2.0". explorer.natureserve.org. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
- ^ Tropicos
- ^ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Jaltomata procumbens". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 26 May 2015.
- ^ Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. (eds.) 1993. Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Gymnosperms of Peru. Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 45: i–xl, 1–1286.
- ^ Dodson, C.H. & A.H. Gentry. 1978. Flora of the Río Palenque Science Center: Los Ríos Province, Ecuador. Selbyana 4(1–6): i–xxx, 1–628.
- ^ Dodson, C.H., A.H. Gentry & F.M. Valverde Badillo. 1985. Flora de Jauneche 1–512. Banco Central del Ecuador, Quito.
- ^ Hokche, O., P. E. Berry & O. Huber. (eds.) 2008. Nuevo Catálogo de la Flora Vascular de Venezuela 1–860. Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela, Caracas. Reference article
- ^ Idárraga-Piedrahita, A., R. D. C. Ortiz, R. Callejas Posada & M. Merello. (eds.) 2011. Flora de Antioquia: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares 2: 9–939. Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín.
- ^ Pérez J., L. A., M. Sousa Sánchez, A. M. Hanan-Alipi, F. Chiang Cabrera & P. Tenorio L. 2005. Vegetación terrestre. 65–110. In Biodiversidad del Estado de Tabasco. CONABIO-UNAM, México
- ^ Jaltomata Schlechtendal (Solanaceae), Professor Thomas Mione, Central Connecticut State University
- ^ Gentry, J.L. 1973. Restoration of the genus Jaltomata (Solanaceae). Phytologia 27:286-287.
- ^ Ruiz López, Hipólito, & Pavón, José Antonio. 1799. Flora Peruviana, et Chilensis 2: 43.