Taxon:
Capsicum annuum L. var. glabriusculum (Dunal) Heiser & Pickersgill
Summary
Place of publication:
Baileya 19:156. 1975
Verified:
01/22/1997
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
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- Balick, M. J. et al. 2000. Checklist of the vascular plants of Belize, with common names and uses. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 85
- Carrizo García, C. et al. 2016. Phylogenetic relationships, diversification and expansion of chili peppers (Capsicum, Solanaceae). Ann. Bot. (Oxford) 118:35-51. URL: http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/by/year
- Eshbaugh, W. H. 1980. The taxonomy of the genus Capsicum (Solanaceae) - 1980. Phytologia 47:156. URL: http://www.phytologia.org/
- Eshbaugh, W. H. 1993. Peppers: history and exploitation of a serendipitous new crop discovery. New crops 132-139.
- Gómez-Pompa, A. & V. Sosa, eds. 1978-. Flora de Veracruz. URL: http://www.ecologia.edu.mx/publicaciones/flover.htm
- González-Jara, P. et al. 2011. Impact of human management on the genetic variation of wild pepper, Capsicum annuum var. glabriusculum. PLoS One 6(12):e28715. URL: http://www.plosone.org/
- Hayano-Kanashiro, C. et al. 2016. Wild pepper Capsicum annuum L. var. glabriusculum: Taxonomy, plant morphology, genome sequencing, and phytochemical compounds. Crop Sci. (Madison) 56:1-11.
- Heiser, C. B., Jr. & B. Pickersgill. 1975. Names for the bird peppers (Capsicum - Solanaceae). Baileya 19:151-156.
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- Howard, R. 1974-1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
- Kearney, T. H. & R. H. Peebles. 1969. Arizona flora, ed. 2. Note: treats as Capsicum baccatum L.
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Common names
English
American bird pepper – bird pepper – turkey pepper – Spanish
ají – chile pequin – chilipiquin – chiltepe – chiltepin – piquin – Swedish
chiltepinpeppar –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
1 | Native | Northern America | Northern Mexico | Mexico | Baja California Sur | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Northern Mexico | Mexico | Chihuahua | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Northern Mexico | Mexico | Nuevo León | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Northern Mexico | Mexico | San Luis Potosí | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Northern Mexico | Mexico | Sinaloa | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Northern Mexico | Mexico | Sonora | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Northern Mexico | Mexico | Tamaulipas | |
1 | Native | Northern America | South-Central U.S.A. | United States | Texas | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southeastern U.S.A. | United States | Florida | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southeastern U.S.A. | United States | Georgia | e. |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southeastern U.S.A. | United States | Louisiana | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southern Mexico | Mexico | Campeche | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southern Mexico | Mexico | Chiapas | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southern Mexico | Mexico | Guerrero | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southern Mexico | Mexico | Jalisco | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southern Mexico | Mexico | Michoacán de Ocampo | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southern Mexico | Mexico | Morelos | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southern Mexico | Mexico | Nayarit | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southern Mexico | Mexico | Oaxaca | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southern Mexico | Mexico | Querétaro | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southern Mexico | Mexico | Quintana Roo | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southern Mexico | Mexico | Tabasco | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southern Mexico | Mexico | Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southern Mexico | Mexico | Yucatán | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southwestern U.S.A. | United States | Arizona | s. |
1 | Native | Southern America | Caribbean | Anguilla | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Caribbean | Bahamas | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Caribbean | Barbados | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Caribbean | Cayman Islands | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Caribbean | Dominica | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Caribbean | Dominican Republic | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Caribbean | Grenada | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Caribbean | Guadeloupe | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Caribbean | Haiti | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Caribbean | Jamaica | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Caribbean | Martinique | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Caribbean | Montserrat | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Caribbean | Netherlands Antilles | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Caribbean | St. Kitts and Nevis | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Caribbean | St. Lucia | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Caribbean | St. Vincent and Grenadines | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Caribbean | United States | Puerto Rico | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Central America | Belize | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Central America | Costa Rica | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Central America | Guatemala | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Central America | Honduras | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Central America | Nicaragua | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Central America | Panama | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Western South America | Colombia | | |
2 | Cultivated | Northern America | | Mexico | | n. |
4 | Naturalized | | | | | natzd. elsewhere |
Native
Northern America
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SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.:
United States [Florida, Georgia (e.), Louisiana]
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SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.:
United States [Texas]
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SOUTHWESTERN U.S.A.:
United States [Arizona (s.)]
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NORTHERN MEXICO:
Mexico [Chihuahua, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tamaulipas, Baja California Sur]
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SOUTHERN MEXICO:
Mexico [Campeche, Chiapas, Guerrero, Jalisco, Michoacán de Ocampo, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Querétaro, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave, Yucatán]
Southern America
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CARIBBEAN:
Anguilla, Netherlands Antilles, Bahamas, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Guadeloupe, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, Montserrat, Martinique, United States [Puerto Rico], St. Vincent and Grenadines
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CENTRAL AMERICA:
Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama
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WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA:
Colombia
Cultivated
Northern America
Naturalized
(natzd. elsewhere)
Economic Uses
Usage | Type | Note | Reference |
Food additives | flavoring | as Capsicum annuum var. aviculare | Eshbaugh, W. H. 1993. Peppers: history and exploitation of a serendipitous new crop discovery. New crops 132-139. |
Medicines | folklore | | McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2 American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, Maryland. |