番茄屬

Unarmed annual or perennial herbs; pubescence of simple or glandular hairs. Leaves mostly compound with intersitial leaflets. Inflorescences appearing axillary or lateral, racemose; peduncle sometimes forked. Flowers 5-9-merous; calyx campanulate; corolla yellow, deeply lobed, rotate; stamens inserted in corolla tube; filaments short, anthers slender, coherent by lateral hairs, attenuate and long apiculate, dehiscing longitudinally; ovary 2-5-loculed. Berry red, orange, yellow, or green, mostly globose, sometimes pubescent; fruiting calyx hardly enlarged; seeds numerous, discoid, sometimes pubescent; embryo strongly curved.

Nine species in South and North America; one species widely cultivated and occuring in Taiwan.

Lower Taxa

• Lycopersicon esculentum Mill
• Lycopersicon esculentum var. cerasiforme (Dunal) A. Gray
• Lycopersicon esculentum var. esculentum

Related Synonym(s):

• Lycopersicon cerasiforme Dunal = Lycopersicon esculentum var. cerasiforme (Dunal) A. Gray
• Solanum lycopersicum L. = Lycopersicon esculentum Mill