Capsicum

Accepted species 43 Documented here 8 Family Solanaceae

Accepted species 43 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Capsicum annuum L. 222 documented
Capsicum rhomboideum (Dunal) Kuntze 29 documented
Capsicum chacoense Hunz. 24 documented
Capsicum frutescens L. 21 documented
Capsicum geminifolium (Dammer) Hunz. 8 documented
Capsicum dimorphum (Miers) Kuntze 5 documented
Capsicum baccatum L. 3 documented
Capsicum pubescens Ruiz & Pav. 3 documented
Capsicum eshbaughii Barboza 1 below the evidence gate
Capsicum villosum Sendtn. 1 below the evidence gate
Capsicum benoistii Hunz. ex Barboza 0 below the evidence gate
Capsicum caatingae Barboza & Agra 0 below the evidence gate
Capsicum caballeroi M.Nee 0 below the evidence gate
Capsicum campylopodium Sendtn. 0 below the evidence gate
Capsicum carassense Barboza & Bianch. 0 below the evidence gate
Capsicum cardenasii Heiser & P.G.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Capsicum ceratocalyx M.Nee 0 below the evidence gate
Capsicum chinense Jacq. 0 below the evidence gate
Capsicum coccineum (Rusby) Hunz. 0 below the evidence gate
Capsicum cornutum (Hiern) Hunz. 0 below the evidence gate
Capsicum eximium Hunz. 0 below the evidence gate
Capsicum flexuosum Sendtn. 0 below the evidence gate
Capsicum friburgense Bianch. & Barboza 0 below the evidence gate
Capsicum galapagoense Hunz. 0 below the evidence gate
Capsicum hookerianum (Miers) Kuntze 0 below the evidence gate
Capsicum hunzikerianum Barboza & Bianch. 0 below the evidence gate
Capsicum lanceolatum (Greenm. ex Donn.Sm.) C.V.Morton & Standl. 0 below the evidence gate
Capsicum longidentatum Agra & Barboza 0 below the evidence gate
Capsicum longifolium Barboza & S.Leiva 0 below the evidence gate
Capsicum lycianthoides Bitter 0 below the evidence gate
Capsicum minutiflorum (Rusby) Hunz. 0 below the evidence gate
Capsicum mirabile Mart. 0 below the evidence gate
Capsicum mirum Barboza 0 below the evidence gate
Capsicum muticum (Sendtn.) Barboza 0 below the evidence gate
Capsicum neei Barboza & X.Reyes 0 below the evidence gate
Capsicum parvifolium Sendtn. 0 below the evidence gate
Capsicum pereirae Barboza & Bianch. 0 below the evidence gate
Capsicum piuranum Barboza & S.Leiva 0 below the evidence gate
Capsicum rabenii Sendtn. 0 below the evidence gate
Capsicum recurvatum Witasek 0 below the evidence gate
Capsicum regale Barboza & Bohs 0 below the evidence gate
Capsicum schottianum Sendtn. 0 below the evidence gate
Capsicum tovarii Eshbaugh, P.G.Sm. & Nickrent 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.