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The genus Capsicum is in the family Solanaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Capsicum

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See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Capsicum annuum L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Capsicum baccatum L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Capsicum buforum Hunz.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Capsicum caballeroi M.Nee	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Capsicum campylopodium Sendtn.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Capsicum cardenasii Heiser & P.G.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Capsicum ceratocalyx M.Nee	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Capsicum chacoense Hunz.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Capsicum chinense Jacq.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Capsicum coccineum (Rusby) Hunz.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Capsicum cornutum (Hiern) Hunz.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Capsicum dimorphum (Miers) Kuntze	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Capsicum dusenii Bitter	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Capsicum eximium Hunz.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Capsicum flexuosum Sendtn.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Capsicum friburgense Bianch. & Barboza	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Capsicum galapagoense Hunz.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Capsicum geminifolium (Dammer) Hunz.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Capsicum havanense Kunth	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Capsicum hookerianum (Miers) Kuntze	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Capsicum hunzikerianum Barboza & Bianch.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Capsicum lanceolatum (Greenm.) C.V.Morton & Standl.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Capsicum leptopodum (Dunal) Kuntze	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Capsicum lycianthoides Bitter	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Capsicum minutiflorum (Rusby) Hunz.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Capsicum mirabile Sendtn.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Capsicum mositicum Toledo ex Handro	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Capsicum parvifolium Sendtn.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Capsicum pereirae Barboza & Bianch.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Capsicum pubescens Ruiz & Pav.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Capsicum ramosissimum Witasek	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Capsicum recurvatum Witasek	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Capsicum rhomboideum (Dunal) Kuntze	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Capsicum schottianum Sendtn.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Capsicum scolnikianum Hunz.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Capsicum sinense Jacq.	Accepted		TRO
Capsicum spina-alba (Dunal) Kuntze	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Capsicum stramoniifolium (Kunth) Standl.	Accepted		TRO
Capsicum tovarii Eshbaugh, P.G.Sm. & Nickrent	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Capsicum villosum Sendtn.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 197 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Capsicum. Of these 40 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 72 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Capsicum. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 197 species names for the genus Capsicum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	40	20.3%
◕	Synonym	94	47.7%
◕	Unplaced	25	12.7%
◕	Unassessed	38	19.3%

All names

The status of the 269 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Capsicum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	43	16.0%
◕	Synonym	162	60.2%
◕	Unplaced	25	9.3%
◕	Unassessed	39	14.5%

Of these names,

• 1 are recorded as invalid
• 8 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 197 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Capsicum, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	38	80	0	0	118	59.9%
	Low confidence	2	14	25	38	79	40.1%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Capsicum, are as follows: