(Last Modified On 5/15/2013)
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(Last Modified On 5/15/2013)
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Species
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Capsicum frutescens L.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Sp. PI. 189. 1753.
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Note
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LECTOTYPE: van Royen s.n. (L, not seen; photo in Taxon 18: 279. 1969).
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Description
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Small shrub, herbaceous or quite woody to 2 m tall, glabrous to pubescent, mostly fine-puberulent. Flowers, above the first node, more than one to a node; pedicels mostly thickening and erect in fruit; calyx cyathiform-to almost tubular, truncate or with small, deltoid umbos, lacking a constriction at the base near the pedicel; the corolla white or greenish, the lobes spreading to recurved; the anthers blue to violet, rarely yellow; the style exserted 1.5 mm or more beyond the anthers. Mature fruit erect, deciduous, soft fleshed, of various shape, mostly red.
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Habit
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Small shrub
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Distribution
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Capsicum frutescens is a widespread species found from the southeastern United States to Argentina and has been introduced to many countries.
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Note
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It is slower to fruit than other species. Herbarium specimens are often indistinguish- able from those of C. annuum.
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: Changuinola Valley, Dunlap 178 (US). CANAL ZONE: Moist thicket, Balboa, Standley 25504 (US). Sosa Hill, Balboa, Standley 26493 (US). PANAMA: Along Corozal Road near Panama6, Standley 26862 (US). Between Matias Hernandez and Juan Diaz, Standley 32004 (US).
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