Capsicum

• Authority

  Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.

• Family

  Solanaceae

• Scientific Name

  Capsicum

• Description

  Genus Description - Herbs or subshrubs. Leaves simple, entire. Flowers actinomorphic, 5-merous, axillary, solitary or in cymes; calyx bell-shaped, toothed or truncate; corolla white, saucer-shaped, with spreading lobes; stamens 5, the filaments of equal length, adnate to the base of corolla, the anthers opening by longitudinal slits; ovary of 2 or 3 connate carpels, the placentation basal-axile with numerous ovules. Fruit a fleshy to leathery berry; seeds numerous, lenticular, flattened.