Taxon: Solanum muricatum Aiton

Common names:

• melon-pear   (Source: Pl GR Newsl ) – English
  
• Peruvian pepino   (Source: Pl GR Newsl ) – English
  
• poire melon   (Source: Pl GR Newsl ) – French
  
• Melonenbirne   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – German
  
• Pepino   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – German
  
• pêra-melão   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• melão-andino   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• melão-de-árvore   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• tomateiro-francês   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• pepino   (Source: Amer J Bot 82S:111.) – Spanish
  
• pepino dulce   (Source: Amer J Bot 82S:111.) – Spanish
  
• mataserrano   (Source: Econ Bot 50:359.) – Spanish (Peru)
  
• pepino   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Human food: fruit   (fide Dict Gard; Potato EGR)
  

Distributional range:

• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Western South America: Colombia [center of diversity]; Ecuador [center of diversity]; Peru [w. Andean region]

References:

• Solanaceae source: a global taxonomic resource for the nightshade family (on-line resource).
• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Anderson, G. J. & R. K. Jansen. 1995. Contributions to the study of the origin and relationships of the 'Pepino dulce,' Solanum muricatum (Abstract). Amer. J. Bot. 82(6S):111.
• Blanca, J. M. et al. 2007. AFLP and DNA sequence variation in an Andean domesticate, pepino (Solanum muricatum, Solanaceae): implications for evolution and domestication. Amer. J. Bot. 94:1219–1229.
• Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45.
• Correll, D. S. 1962. The potato and its wild relatives. Contr. Texas Res. Found., Bot. Stud. 4:1-606. 47.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Hackett, C. & J. Carolane. 1982. Edible Horticultural Crops.
• Hawkes, J. G. 1990. The potato: evolution, biodiversity, and genetic resources.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• IPGRI. New World Fruits Database (on-line resource).
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Nee, M. 1999. Synopsis of Solanum in the New World. In: Nee, M. et al., eds., Solanaceae IV: advances in biology and utilization. 298.
• Nuez, F. et al. 1993. Recolección de especies hortícolas en Ecuador. Pl. Genet. Resources Newslett. 96:29–33.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Prohens, J. et al. 1996. The pepino (Solanum muricatum, Solanaceae): a "new" crop with a history. Econ. Bot. 50:355–368.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Rodriguez-Burruezo, A. et al. 2003. Wild relatives can contribute to the improvement of fruit quality in pepino (Solanum muricatum) - Generation means analysis shows that S. caripense and S. tabanoense are useful for improving sugar and acid contents. Euphytica 129:311–318.
• Symon, D. E. 1981. A revision of the genus Solanum in Australia. J. Adelaide Bot. Gard. 4:1–367.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Solanum muricatum.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Solanum muricatum.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Solanum muricatum.

Check other web resources for Solanum muricatum Aiton:

• New World Fruits Database: Online database from Bioversity International
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Solanaceae Source: A global taxonomic resource for the nightshade family
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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