Solanum lycopersicum L.

Erect , annual herb ; up to 2 m tall , with glandular aromatic hairs . Stems erect , procumbent , trailing or straggling , sometimes using associated vegetation for support , fleshy or herbaceous , light to dark green ; all parts viscid-pubescent with eglandular and glandular hairs . Leaves alternate , 9–31 × 6–14 cm with rachides 4 . 2–14 cm long , usually interrupted imparipinnate with 2–8 pairs of leaflets , usually strongly aromatic ; leaflets , light green above , ovate to ovate-lanceolate , 3–5(–7) × 1–3 . 8(–5) cm , bases cordate to cuneate , usually oblique , irregularly and usually deeply incised and serrate to sinuate , apices obtuse , acute or acuminate ; petioles 1 . 2–7 cm long . Inflorescences 5–12-flowered ; peduncles 0 . 5–3 . 5 cm long in flower , 2–4 . 8 cm long in fruit ; pedicels 4–15 mm long in flower , 1–1 . 6 cm long in fruit . Flowers yellow ; calyx campanulate/stellate , divided almost to base , 3 . 5–11 mm long , densely pubescent externally ; lobes narrowly triangular to lanceolate , 3–9 × 0 . 7–2 mm , acute , strongly reflexed in fruit ; corolla yellow , with ... greenish basal star , stellate , 1 . 4–2 . 4 cm diameter , tube 0 . 5–1 . 3 mm long ; stamens equal ; filaments flat , fused to each other forming a ring , 0 . 3–0 . 8 mm long , pubescent to glabrescent ; anthers yellow , 5 . 5–7 × 0 . 6–1 . 3 mm , connivent to form a bottle-shaped cone 5–8 × 1 . 8–3 . 6 mm with sterile beak ; ovary usually bilocular but plurilocular with false septa in cultivated varieties , 1 . 3–1 . 6 × 1 . 8–2 mm , ridged , glabrous ; style straight , 5 . 5–7 . 3 × 0 . 2–0 . 4 mm , hairy in lower part , usually included , occasionally exserted to 1 mm ; stigma green , capitate , sometimes bilobed , 0 . 2–0 . 8 × 0 . 3–0 . 5 mm . Fruit berry , 1–10 cm diameter , globose , ovoid to pyriform , red , orange or yellow , often depressed or irregularly lobed , glabrous and smooth , pericarp thick , sweet-tasting . Seeds usually > 100 , yellow to light brown , elliptic-ovoid , 3–3 . 8 × 1 . 7–2 . 4 mm , flattened . (Ref . POWO ; 2023) .

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Frequent

Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.
Lycopersicon esculentum subsp. typicum Luckwill
Lycopersicon lycopersicum (L.) H.Karst.
Lycopersicon pomum-amoris Moench
Lycopersicon solanum-lycopersicum Hill
Solanum lycopersicum var. esculentum (Mill.) Voss