diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 0caa352f9..dfc0a542e 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ Andy Freeland
 Anthon van der Neut
 Armin Rigo
 Aron Curzon
+Aviv Palivoda
 Benjamin Peterson
 Bob Ippolito
 Brian Dorsey
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index c81f342b0..159504c87 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 * Fix (`#1437`_): When passing in a bytestring regex pattern to parameterize
   attempt to decode it as utf-8 ignoring errors.
 
-*
+* Fix (`#649`_): parametrized test nodes cannot be specified to run on the command line.
 
 *
 
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
 .. _#1437: https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/1437
 .. _#469: https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/469
 .. _#1431: https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/pull/1431
+.. _#649: https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/649
 
 .. _@asottile: https://github.com/asottile
 
diff --git a/_pytest/main.py b/_pytest/main.py
index 70d6896cb..8654d7af6 100644
--- a/_pytest/main.py
+++ b/_pytest/main.py
@@ -718,7 +718,8 @@ class Session(FSCollector):
             if rep.passed:
                 has_matched = False
                 for x in rep.result:
-                    if x.name == name:
+                    # TODO: remove parametrized workaround once collection structure contains parametrization
+                    if x.name == name or x.name.split("[")[0] == name:
                         resultnodes.extend(self.matchnodes([x], nextnames))
                         has_matched = True
                 # XXX accept IDs that don't have "()" for class instances
diff --git a/testing/test_mark.py b/testing/test_mark.py
index 1795928f0..aa1be6f7c 100644
--- a/testing/test_mark.py
+++ b/testing/test_mark.py
@@ -269,6 +269,22 @@ def test_keyword_option_parametrize(spec, testdir):
     assert len(passed) == len(passed_result)
     assert list(passed) == list(passed_result)
 
+
+def test_parametrized_collected_from_command_line(testdir):
+    """Parametrized test not collected if test named specified
+       in command line issue#649.
+    """
+    py_file = testdir.makepyfile("""
+        import pytest
+        @pytest.mark.parametrize("arg", [None, 1.3, "2-3"])
+        def test_func(arg):
+            pass
+    """)
+    file_name = os.path.basename(py_file.strpath)
+    rec = testdir.inline_run(file_name + "::" + "test_func")
+    rec.assertoutcome(passed=3)
+
+
 class TestFunctional:
 
     def test_mark_per_function(self, testdir):