Taxon: Solanum pimpinellifolium L.

Genus:

Solanum

Subgenus:

Potatoe

Section:

Lycopersicon

Family:

Solanaceae

Subfamily:

Solanoideae

Tribe:

Solaneae

Nomen number:

406496

Place of publication:

Cent. pl. I:8. 1755 (Amoen. acad. 4:268. 1759)

Link to protologue:

Comment:

authorship attributed by some to Juslenius

Typification:

Name Verified on:

04-sep-2008 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last Changed: 12-jul-2018

Species priority site is:

Northeast Regional PI Station (NE9)

Accessions:

9 in National Plant Germplasm System (GoogleMap)

Synonyms:

(≡) Lycopersicon esculentum subsp. pimpinellifolium (L.) Brezhnev
(≡) Lycopersicon esculentum var. racemigerum (Lange) Brezhnev
(≡) Lycopersicon pimpinellifolium (L.) Mill.
(=) Lycopersicon racemigerum Lange

Common names:

currant tomato (Source: Dict Rehm) - English
Johannisbeertomate (Source: Dict Rehm) - German
tomate cimarrón (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish
vinbärstomat (Source: Kulturvaxtdatabas) - Swedish

Economic Importance:

Human food: fruit (fide Food Feed Crops US, as Lycopersicon pimpinellifolium)
Gene sources: disease resistance for tomato (fide Proc Natl Acad Sci 76:3435:3439. 1979, as Lycopersicon pimpinellifolium)
Gene sources: drought resistance for tomato (fide Proc Natl Acad Sci 76:3435:3439. 1979, as Lycopersicon pimpinellifolium)
Gene sources: primary genetic relative of tomato (fide Proc Natl Acad Sci 76:3435:3439. 1979, as Lycopersicon pimpinellifolium)

Distributional Range:

Native

Southern America

WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Ecuador, [El Oro, Esmeraldas, Guayas, Los Rios, Pichincha] Peru [Amazonas, Ancash, Cajamarca, La Libertad, Lambayeque, Lima, Piura, Tumbes]

Naturalized

(natzd. elsewhere beyond native range incl. Galapagos Is.)

References:

Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource on www.skud.info). 2012 (Kulturvaxtdatabas)
Peralta, I. E. et al. 2008. Taxonomy of wild tomatoes and their relatives (Solanum sect. Lycopersicoides, sect. Juglandifolia, sect. Lycopersicon; Solanaceae) Syst. Bot. Monogr. 84:125-132.
Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994 (Dict Rehm)

Check other web resources for Solanum pimpinellifolium L. :

TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
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=406496. Accessed 7 junio 2026.