Tubocapsicum anomalum(Franch. & Sav.) Makino

WFO wfo-0001032691 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 5 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Tubocapsicum anomalum, photographed by 楊富鈞
fig. a 楊富鈞, CC BY 4.0 / 2018-08-05 / obs. 22856301
Tubocapsicum anomalum, photographed by 國立臺灣博物館
fig. b 國立臺灣博物館, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 78612819
Tubocapsicum anomalum, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. c Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 93391038
Tubocapsicum anomalum, photographed by Cheng-Te Hsu
fig. d Cheng-Te Hsu, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 84838327
Tubocapsicum anomalum, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. e Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 93390935
Tubocapsicum anomalum, photographed by Cheng-Te Hsu
fig. f Cheng-Te Hsu, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 84838320
Tubocapsicum anomalum, photographed by Cheng-Te Hsu
fig. g Cheng-Te Hsu, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 33598114
Tubocapsicum anomalum, photographed by Cheng-Te Hsu
fig. h Cheng-Te Hsu, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 33807379

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Native range 12 botanical countries

Regions where Tubocapsicum anomalum is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Japan, Korea, Nansei-shoto, Taiwan, Assam, Borneo, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam China South-CentralChina SoutheastJapanTaiwanAssamBorneoMyanmarPhilippinesThailandVietnam KoreaNansei-shoto
Native distribution of Tubocapsicum anomalum, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Japan JAP
Korea KOR
Nansei-shoto NNS
Taiwan TAI
Assam ASS ASIA-TROPICAL
Borneo BOR
Myanmar MYA
Philippines PHI
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 8 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Capsicum anomalum Franch. & Sav.
  • Capsicum boninense Koidz.
  • Solanum anodontum H.Lév. & Vaniot
  • Solanum philippinense Merr.
  • Tubocapsicum anomalum var. obtusum Makino
  • Tubocapsicum boninense Koidz.
  • Tubocapsicum boninense (Koidz.) Koidz. ex Hara
  • Tubocapsicum obtusum (Makino) Kitam.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.