Taxon: Solanum tuberosum L. subsp. tuberosum

Genus:

Solanum

Subgenus:

Potatoe

Section:

Petota

Family:

Solanaceae

Subfamily:

Solanoideae

Tribe:

Solaneae

Nomen number:

101293

Place of publication:

Sp. pl. 1:185. 1753

Link to protologue:

Comment:

[or S. tuberosum Tuberosum Group]

Typification:

Name Verified on:

03-feb-1993 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last Changed: 12-jul-2018

Species priority site is:

Potato Germplasm Introduction Station (NR6)

Accessions:

62 in National Plant Germplasm System (GoogleMap)

Other conspecific taxa:

Common names:

Irish potato (Source: World Econ Pl) - English
potato (Source: World Econ Pl) - English
white potato (Source: Hortus 3) - English
pomme de terre (Source: Dict Rehm) - French
Kartoffel (Source: Dict Rehm) - German
jaga-imo (Source: Names Batra) - Japanese Rōmaji
ziemniak (Source: pers. comm.) - Polish
batata (Source: Dict Rehm) - Portuguese
papa (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish
potatis (Source: Kulturvaxtdatabas) - Swedish
yang yu (Source: F ChinaEng) - Transcribed Chinese
gamja (Source: F Korea) - Transcribed Korean
kartofel' (Source: pers. comm.) - Transliterated Russian

Economic Importance:

Human food: beverage base (fide Hawkes 1990:182.)
Human food: starch (fide Hawkes 1990:182.)
Human food: vegetable (fide Hawkes 1990:182.)
Medicines: folklore (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2, as S. tuberosum; Herbs Commerce ed2, as S. tuberosum)
Vertebrate poisons: mammals (fide Kingsbury; Kellerman et al.; Can Poison Pl)

Distributional Range:

Cultivated

(cult. worldwide)

References:

Batra, L. R. Names of Japanese plants sorted by their Japanese names in Romanized Katakana and scientific nomenclature. 1995 (Names Batra)
Hawkes, J. G. 1990. The potato: evolution, biodiversity, and genetic resources. 1990 (Potato EGR) 182.
Kellerman, T. S. et al. Plant poisonings and mycotoxicoses of livestock in Southern Africa. 1988 (Kellerman et al.)
Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium Hortus third. 1976 (Hortus 3)
Nemchinova, Y. 1998. pers. comm. (pers. comm.)
Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994 (Dict Rehm)
Zimnoch-Guzowska, E. 2012. pers. comm. (pers. comm.) via e-mail on 11 Oct.

Check other web resources for Solanum tuberosum L. subsp. tuberosum :

Solanaceae Source: A global taxonomic resource for the nightshade family
Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Databas 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.

Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2026. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://germoplasma.iniaf.gob.bo/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=101293. Accessed 7 junio 2026.