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Capsicum baccatum

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Identification
Capsicum baccatum L. [family SOLANACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by H.F. Wernham,
Related name
  • Capsicum globiferum
  • Capsicum baccatum
  • Capsicum sp.
  • Capsicum not on sheet
  • Capsicum microcarpum
  • Capsicum microcarpon
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  • Capsicum annuum
  • Capsicum praetermissum
  • Capsicum divaricatum
  • Solanum not on sheet
  • Capsicum frutescens

Flora

Entry for CAPSICUM baccatum Linn. [family SOLANACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol IV, Part 2, page 207, (1905) Author: (By C. H. Wright.)
Names
CAPSICUM baccatum Linn. [family SOLANACEAE], Mant. 47. —Fingerhuth, Monogr. Capsic. 18, t. 4, fig. a; Sendt. in Mart. Fl. Bras. x. 146; Dunal in DC. Prodr xiii. i. 420; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 751.
CAPSICUM frutescens Irish var. baccatum [family SOLANACEAE], in Rep. Missouri Bot. Gard. 1898, 99.
Capsicum minimis siliquis Dodon. [family SOLANACEAE], Stirp. Hist. Pempt. iv. cap. xxvi. 717.
Information
A shrub 1–2 ft. high, erect; branches divaricate, obscurely angled. Leaves ovate or oblong, acuminate, glabrous or nearly so, up to 3 1/2 in. long and 1 3/4 in. wide, rounded and sometimes narrowly cuneate at the base; petiole about 1 in. long. Flowers geminate, rarely solitary; peduncles erect, about 1 in. long, thickened upwards. Calyx shortly cup-shaped, glabrous; teeth 5, spreading, subulate, obtuse. Corolla dirty white, 1/2 in. in diam.; lobes ovate-oblong, acuminate. Ovary smooth; style slender, thickened near the apex. Berry globose-ovoid, scarlet, smooth, surrounded at the base by the enlarged calyx.
Distribution
Uganda Nile Land Entebbe, Dawe, 113!Angola Lower Guinea Ambriz; cultivated near Mubango and Quibanza, Welwitsch, 6068! Golungo Alto; forests of nearly all the Sobatos, and of Mata de Quibanga, Welwitsch, 6064! 6071!

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