Tomatoes have 247 registered names, such as Buda, Centauro, Lusitano, and Zapateco, while sunflowers follow with 107 varieties, including Castelo, Clarasol, Talento, and Subito. To close the top three is corn with 104 names, including Airwell, Capuzi, Inágua, and Viseu.

Watermelons

Also noteworthy are watermelons (56), including Amazonia, Marianita, and Palmira, and melons (also 56), including Manuel António, Marco António, and Ringostar.

Peppers

Next come the pepper (55), with names like Leo, Pinocchio and Red Devil; the annual ryegrass (46), such as Azores, Mateo and Zamba; and the onion (31), such as Bibi, Lulu and Red Rock.

Sorghum

Then come sorghum (27), zucchini (19), beans (16), alfalfa (15), musk pumpkin (14), perennial ryegrass (13), chickpeas (12), butternut squash (11) and potatoes (10).

Purple-flowered vetch

Below this are purple-flowered vetch (nine, a legume similar to common vetch), common vetch (nine, a forage legume), tall festica (nine, a grass species), rice (eight), cucumber (eight), fodder pea (eight, a variety for animal feed), soft wheat (seven), subterranean clover (seven, a pasture species), Persian clover (seven, a forage clover), turnip (seven), Portuguese cabbage (seven), eggplant (seven), oats (six), coriander (six), broad beans (six), durum wheat (five), chickpea (five), white clover (five, a common pasture plant) and kale (five).

Between four and two names

With between four and two names are the following: vesticous clover (four, a less common clover), bersim (four, also called Egyptian clover), serradella (four, a legume used for pasture), red clover (three), istomocarpus clover (three, a type of clover), cowpea (three), wild serradella (three, a wild pasture legume), bisserula (three, a pasture legume), burdock (three, a root vegetable), white lupin (three, a legume), balance clover (three, used in pasture), black oats (three, a cereal crop), Sudan grass (three, a forage grass), hybrids resulting from the crossing of a species of the genus ‘triticum’ with a species of ‘secale’ (three, triticale), broccoli (three), hybrid ryegrass (three, a pasture grass), panasco (two, a grass species), lupin (two, a legume), pink clover (two), squarroso clover (two, a forage clover), hybrid pumpkin (two), pea (two), bean – storage variety (two), lentils (two), pumpkin (two), carrots (two), Savoy cabbage (two), red vetch (two, a legume), gherkin (two, a type of cucumber) and corn – preserved variety (two).

One denomination

With only one denomination, the following appear: durum wheat – storage variety, brome, Pannonian vetch, chickpea – storage variety, sheep's tongue, barrel alfalfa, alfalfa doliata, alfalfa murex, Harding plant, meadow poa, narrow-leaved lupin, glandular clover, violet clover, flax, pumpkin, gila pumpkin, pumpkin – storage variety, watercress, lettuce, table beet, common onion, chickpea, turnip greens, spinach, broad bean, and chickpea.

Tests carried out

The varieties nominated for inclusion in this catalogue are subjected to tests of distinctiveness, uniformity, and stability, as well as tests of agronomic value and use.

After completion of the tests and laboratory analyses, the results are presented to the Technical Council for the Protection of Agricultural Production for evaluation. The final decision rests with the DGAV (Directorate-General for Food and Veterinary).

The 2026 edition includes varieties approved in previous years and those registered in January of the current year.