Capsicum L.

Native to:

Alabama, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Arizona, Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, Galápagos, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Louisiana, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Southwest Caribbean, Suriname, Texas, Trinidad-Tobago, Turks-Caicos Is., Uruguay, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is.

Introduced into:

Aldabra, Algeria, Andaman Is., Angola, Assam, Austria, Baltic States, Bangladesh, Benin, Bermuda, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Botswana, Bulgaria, Burundi, California, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canary Is., Cape Verde, Caroline Is., Central African Republic, Chad, Chile Central, Christmas I., Comoros, Congo, Connecticut, Cook Is., Czechia-Slovakia, Djibouti, DR Congo, East Himalaya, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Fiji, French Guiana, Gabon, Gambia, Germany, Ghana, Gilbert Is., Great Britain, Greece, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Hawaii, India, Inner Mongolia, Ireland, Ivory Coast, Japan, Jawa, Kazakhstan, Kazan-retto, Kenya, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, KwaZulu-Natal, Laos, Line Is., Madagascar, Madeira, Malawi, Maldives, Mali, Marianas, Marquesas, Marshall Is., Maryland, Mauritius, Missouri, Morocco, Mozambique, Mozambique Channel Is., Myanmar, Nepal, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New Mexico, New South Wales, New York, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Queensland, Rodrigues, Rwanda, Réunion, Samoa, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Society Is., Solomon Is., Somalia, South European Russia, Sri Lanka, Sudan-South Sudan, Sulawesi, Tadzhikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tonga, Tuamotu, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Türkiye, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Wake I., West Himalaya, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

• Baroza, G.E., Carrizo García, C., de Bem Bianchetti, L., Romero, M.V. & Scaldaferro, M. (2022). Monograph of wild and cultivated chili peppers (Capsicum L., Solanaceae). PhytoKeys 200: 1-423.
• Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

• Smith & Heiser in Am. J. Bot. 38: 362 (1951).
• —F.T.A. 4, 2: 250

Flora Zambesiaca

• Capsicum L., Sp. Pl.: 188 (1753)
• Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 86 (1754).
• Hunziker, Gen. Solanacearum: 232 (2001).
• Sp. Pl.: 188 (1753)

Flora of Somalia

• Flora Somalia, Vol 3, (2006) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]

Flora of Tropical East Africa

• 9th Rep. Missouri Bot. Gard.: 53–110 (1898);
• Bothalia 14: 845–848 (1983);
• DeWitt & Bosland, Peppers of the World (1996);
• Fingerhuth, Monogr. gen. capsici: 1–32 (1832);
• Gen. Pl. ed. 5: 86 (1754);
• Gen. Solanaceae: 232–244 (2001);
• Sp. Pl. 1: 188 (1753)
• van den Berg et al. (eds), Solanaceae V: 179–185 (2001)