Taxon: Solanum lycopersicum L. var. lycopersicum

Genus:

Solanum

Subgenus:

Potatoe

Section:

Lycopersicon

Family:

Solanaceae

Subfamily:

Solanoideae

Tribe:

Solaneae

Nomen number:

457162

Place of publication:

Link to protologue:

Typification:

Name Verified on:

05-sep-2008 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last Changed: 05-sep-2008

Species priority site is:

Northeast Regional PI Station (NE9)

Accessions:

0 in National Plant Germplasm System

Other conspecific taxa:

Synonyms:

(≡) Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.
(=) Lycopersicon esculentum f. pyriforme (Alef.) C. H. Müll.
(=) Lycopersicon esculentum var. commune L. H. Bailey
(≡) Lycopersicon esculentum var. esculentum Mill.
(=) Lycopersicon esculentum var. grandifolium L. H. Bailey
(=) Lycopersicon esculentum var. pyriforme Alef.
(=) Lycopersicon esculentum var. validum L. H. Bailey
(≡) Lycopersicon lycopersicum (L.) H. Karst.
(=) Lycopersicon lycopersicum var. pyriforme auct.
(=) Lycopersicon pyriforme Dunal

Common names:

tomato (Source: World Econ Pl) - English
tomate (Source: L Noms French ed7) - French
Tomate (Source: Dict Rehm) - German
pomodoro (Source: F Ital) - Italian
tomateiro (Source: Dict Rehm) - Portuguese
tomate (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish
tomatera (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish
tomat (Source: Kulturvaxtdatabas) - Swedish
domado (Source: Kulturpflanze) - Transcribed Korean
ilnyeongam (Source: F Korea) - Transcribed Korean
tomato (Source: F Korea) - Transcribed Korean
tomat (Source: pers. comm.) - Transliterated Russian

Economic Importance:

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

Distributional Range:

Cultivated

(only cult.)

References:

Demilly, D. et al. Liste alphabétique des principales espèces de plantes cultivées et de mauvaises herbes. Noms latins et noms français, ed. 7. 2001 (L Noms French ed7)
Nemchinova, Y. 2008. pers. comm. (pers. comm.)
Pignatti, S. Flora d'Italia. (F Ital)
Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994 (Dict Rehm)

Check other web resources for Solanum lycopersicum L. var. lycopersicum :

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=457162. Accessed 7 junio 2026.