Lycopersicon esculentum var. cerasiforme

櫻桃小番茄

naturalized

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

名彙資訊

特徵描述

典藏標本

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分布位置

相關資訊

A. Gray, Synoptical Flora of North America 2(1): 226. 1806. (Syn. Fl. N. Amer. (ed. 2))

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Wu, Yang, Teng, Chang, Yang and Hsieh, Taiwania 55(2): 154. 2010.
Ciou & Pong, Illustrations of Hakka ethnobotany of Taiwan 134. 2008. (Illustration of Hakka ethnobotany of Taiwan)
Chen, The Invasive Alien Plant in Miaoli 258. 2006. (Invas. Al. Pl. Miaoli)
Yang, A list of plants in Taiwan . 1982. (List Pl. Taiwan)

herb

Sprawling annual herbs, 0.6–2 m tall, viscid pubescent, odorous.
Leaves pinnately compound or divided, 10–40 cm long, apex obtuse, base oblique, cuneate; leaflets mostly 5–9, sessile or petiolulate, unequal, ovate or oblong, 5–7 cm, entire or irregularly dentate, sparingly glandular-pilose; petiole 2–5 cm long.
Peduncle 2–5 cm, little or not branched, often 3–7-flowered, pedicel 1–1.5 cm long. Calyx rotate-campanulate, lobes lanceolate; corolla 2–2.5 cm in diam., lobes narrowly oblong, 8–10 mm, often reflexed; filaments ca. 1 mm long, anthers 6–10 mm.
Berry red or orange-yellow, subglobose, juicy, shiny; seeds straw colored, 2–4 mm, pilose.
Lycopersicon esculentum var. cerasiforme is the ancestral stock from which the large cultivated tomato (var. esculentum) was domesticated. Plants on Taiwan are probably feral populations that have regressed from cultivated var. esculentum rather than ancestral material.

台灣 : frequently occurring in disturbed areas in the south at low elevations.
世界 : Native to tropical America, plants of this variety are now nearly cosmopolitan.