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Capsicum carassense
Capsicum carassense is a species of wild chili pepper in the nightshade family Solanaceae. It is a shrub native southeastern Minas Gerais in southeastern Brazil. It was described by Gloria E. Barboza and Luciano de Bem Bianchetti in 2020, and is treated in the 2022 monograph of the genus Capsicum by Barboza and colleagues.
From the article Capsicum carassense on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
An erect shrub 1–2 m tall (rarely to 3 m), sparsely branched, the branches dichotomous and spreading horizontally, the stems covered with short hairs. The leaves are narrowly elliptic to lanceolate, the larger blades 6–16 cm long and only 0.9–2.5 cm wide. Flowers are borne two to four per leaf axil.
Range & habitat
It is native to southeastern Minas Gerais in southeastern Brazil, where it grows in a seasonally dry tropical climate.
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Distribution and habitat”
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1528792.