Solanum tortipes Urb. & Ekman

Madrid, Anales del Jardín Botánico de, 2009 & Knapp, Sandra, 2009, Synopsis and lectotypification of Solanum (Solanaceae) species endemic in the West Indies, Anales del Jardín Botánico de Madrid 66 (1), pp. 65-84 : 78

Solanum tortipes Urb. & Ekman , Ark. Bot. 21(5): 59. 1927

Type: Haiti. Massif des Cahos, Petit Rivière de l’Artibonite , Pérodin , Jardins Nan-Plaine , 1400 m, 8 Mar 1925, E.L. Ekman H.3475 (holotype, S [ S-04-2991 ] ; isotype, US [US-1410723, barcode US00028728]).

Distribution. Known only from the island of Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic), growing in a wide variety of forest types from dry thorn forest to cloud forest, from 300-1900 m.

Representative specimen. Dominican Republic, Prov. San Juan, Howard & Howard 8805 (BM).

I have located no duplicates of the five specimens were cited by Urban in describing Solanum polyacanthos var. oreophilum – Nectoux s.n., Picarda 245, Buch 915 and Buch 949, all from Haiti. A photograph of a duplicate of Buch 949 at IJ is held at MO and is clearly S. polyacanthos . I have not lectotypified this name here in the hopes of eventually finding and personally examining duplicates of the syntype material.