As support for conservation and maintenance activities, the International Potato Center (CIP) genebank holds a photographic archive of the wild potatoes, mainly as a reference for the morphological characterization of the accessions. Because this material can be useful for any scientist or person interested in potato wild species, a selection of the most relevant photos of leaves, flowers, or tubers of different accessions derived from 129 species have been made available.

The Genebank of the CIP conserves 140 wild potato species classified within the Solanum genus Petota section Solanaceae family, based on (Hawkes,1990; Spooner et al., 2004 & 2014). This is a large and diverse collection with 2337 active accessions. This diversity is conserved and distributed as a public good under the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA). In the Andean communities where these species grow are known as atokk, machu, alcko, gentil, papa del monte and k'ita papa. These species are from 16 different countries distributed in different habits from mountain chains in the Andean highlands to valleys, from sea level to 4520 meters of altitude. They can grow on different type of soils, stony, sandy, volcanic, or rich in organic matter, as well as, in high humidity environments or in the desert and frozen areas. Wild potato species are a source of genes to protect food security and crop resilience needed due to climate change. this subset have 191 accs for 116 species.