Capsicum L.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 196-197

9. Capsicum L. 1

Annual or biennial herbs or shrubs. Leaves alternate, in pairs or groups of 3, simple. Flowers solitary, in pairs or in groups of 3, axillary, extra-axillary or leaf-opposed. Calyx campanulate or tubular, 5(-6)-dentate, fleshy, slightly accrescent. Corolla rotate, with stellate, 5(-6)-lobed limb. Stamens 5(—6), exserted, inserted at top of corolla-tube; anthers connivent. Ovary 2- to 3-locular; stigma capitate. Fruit a rather dry berry, inflated, incompletely 2- to 3-locular; seeds subreniform, compressed.

Literature: A. Terpó, Feddes Reperì. 72: 155-191 (1966). C. B. Heiser & B. Pickersgill, Taxon 18: 277-283 (1969). C. B. Heiser & P. G. Smith, Econ. Bot. 7: 214-227 (1953).