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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Capsicum

Hierarchical position of the Genus Capsicum

Regnum  Plantae common name: The plant kingdom       Divisio  Magnoliophyta Cronquist syn. Angiospermophyta / Anthophyta pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: angiosperms, flowering plants       Subdivisio  Magnoliophytina Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: Angiosperms       Classis  Rosopsida Batsch pub. Dispos. Gen. Pl. Jenens.: 28. 1788.       Subclassis  Lamiidae Takht. ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 74: 178. 25 Mar 1993.       SuperOrdo  Solananae R. Dahlgren ex Reveal pub. Novon 2: 236. 1992.       Ordo  Solanales Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 20. 1829. common name: Polemoniales       Subordo  Solanineae Engl. pub. Syllabus, ed. 2: 180. Mai 1898.       Familia  Solanaceae Juss. pub. Gen. Pl.: 124. 4 Aug 1789. common name: Potatos, tomato, peppers       Tribus  Capsiceae Dumort. pub. Fl. Belg.: 38. 1827.       Subtribus  Capsicinae Kitt. in A. Rich. pub. Nouv. El�m. Bot., ed. 3, Germ. transl.: 796. 1840.       Genus  Capsicum L. pub. (1753) common name: pepper

Named members of the Genus Capsicum

1	Species  annuum L. common name: chili pepper, ornamental pepper
	2    Varietas  annuum common name: cayenne pepper 3    Varietas  aviculare (Dierbach) D'Arcy & Eshbaugh syn. Capsicum annuum var. glabriusculum 4    Varietas  frutescens (L.) Kuntze syn. Capsicum annuum var. annuum 5    Varietas  glabriusculum (Dunal) Heiser & Pickersgill common name: cayenne pepper 6    Varietas  minimum (Miller) Heiser syn. Capsicum annuum var. glabriusculum 7    Varietas  minus (Fingerhuth) Shinners syn. Capsicum annuum var. glabriusculum
8	Species  baccatum L.
	9    Varietas  baccatum common name: cayenne pepper 10    Varietas  pendulum (Willd.) Eshb. common name: aji
11	Species  chinense Jacq. common name: aji
12	Species  frutescens L. syn. Capsicum annuum var. annuum common name: chili, cayenne
13	Species  pendulum Willd. syn. Capsicum baccatum var. pendulum
14	Species  pubescens Ruiz & Pavon common name: rocoto

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

Additional information is available in the commercial version of The Compleat Botanica software for species with this symbol.

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.