Taxon: Solanum lycopersicum L. var. cerasiforme (Alef.) Voss

Genus:

Solanum

Subgenus:

Potatoe

Section:

Lycopersicon

Family:

Solanaceae

Subfamily:

Solanoideae

Tribe:

Solaneae

Nomen number:

406486

Place of publication:

Vilm. Blumengärtn. ed. 3, 1:721. 1894

Link to protologue:

Typification:

Name Verified on:

20-jun-2014 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last Changed: 13-mar-2017

Species priority site is:

Northeast Regional PI Station (NE9)

Accessions:

17 in National Plant Germplasm System (GoogleMap)

Other conspecific taxa:

Synonyms:

Basionym: Lycopersicon esculentum var. cerasiforme Alef.
(≡) Lycopersicon lycopersicum var. cerasiforme (Alef.) M. R. Almeida

Common names:

cherry tomato (Source: World Econ Pl) - English
tomato cerise (Source: Dict Rehm) - French
Kirschtomate (Source: Dict Rehm) - German
tomatillo (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish

Economic Importance:

Human food: fruit (fide Food Feed Crops US , as Lycopersicon esculentum var. cerasiforme)

Distributional Range:

Cultivated

(widely cult.)

Naturalized

(widely natzd.)

Reference:

Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994 (Dict Rehm)

Check other web resources for Solanum lycopersicum L. var. cerasiforme (Alef.) Voss :

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=406486. Accessed 7 junio 2026.