Indexing a field of type solr.SpatialRecursivePrefixTreeFieldType fails when at least two vertexes are more than 180 degrees apart

When trying to index a field of the type solr.SpatialRecursivePrefixTreeFieldType the indexing will fail if two vertexes are more than 180 longitudal degress apart.

For instance this polygon will fail:

POLYGON((-161 49, 0 49, 20 49, 20 89.1, 0 89.1, -161 89.2, -161 49))

but this will not.

POLYGON((-160 49, 0 49, 20 49, 20 89.1, 0 89.1, -160 89.2, -160 49))

This contradicts the documentation found here: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrAdaptersForLuceneSpatial4

The documentation states that each vertex must be less than 180 longitudal degrees apart from the previous vertex.

Relevant parts from the schema.xml file:

<!-- Field type for storing WTK based polygons -->
<fieldType name="location_rpt" class="solr.SpatialRecursivePrefixTreeFieldType"
spatialContextFactory="com.spatial4j.core.context.jts.JtsSpatialContextFactory"
distErrPct="0.025"
maxDistErr="0.000009"
units="degrees"
/>

<field name="geographic_extent" type="location_rpt" index="true" stored="true" />