Taxon: Capsicum baccatum L. var. pendulum (Willd.) Eshbaugh

Genus:

Capsicum

Family:

Solanaceae

Subfamily:

Solanoideae

Tribe:

Capsiceae

Nomen number:

70148

Place of publication:

Taxon 17:51-52. 1968

Link to protologue:

Typification:

Name Verified on:

22-ene-1997 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last Changed: 12-jul-2018

Species priority site is:

Plant Genetic Resources Conservation Unit, Griffin, GA (S9)

Accessions:

112 in National Plant Germplasm System (GoogleMap)

Other conspecific taxa:

Synonyms:

Basionym: Capsicum pendulum Willd.

Common names:

aji (Source: Websters Dict) - English
Brown's pepper (Source: Dict Rehm) - English
Peruvian pepper (Source: CultTropS) - English
piment chien (Source: Dict Rehm) - French
peruanischer Pfeffer (Source: Dict Rehm) - German
chinchi uchu (Source: Names Soukup) - Quichua (Peru)
ají (Source: Brittonia) - Spanish
piris (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish
ají amarillo (Source: Scient Hort) - Spanish (Peru)
ají mirasol (Source: Scient Hort) - Spanish (Peru)
escabeche (Source: Names Soukup) - Spanish (Peru)

Economic Importance:

Food additives: coloring (fide Dict Rehm)
Food additives: flavoring (fide Cult TropS, as C. baccatum)
Medicines: folklore (fide Herbs Commerce ed2, as C. baccatum)

Distributional Range:

Cultivated

Southern America

South America

References:

Webster's third new international dictionary. 1961 (Websters Dict)
Heiser, C. B., Jr. & P. G. Smith 1958. A new species of Capsicum from South America (Brittonia) 10:194-201.
McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. 2000 (Herbs Commerce ed2)
Ortiz, R. et al. 2010. Classifying vegetable genetic resources - A case study with domesticated Capsicum spp. Sci. Hort. 126:186-191.
Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994 (Dict Rehm)
Rehm, S. & G. Espig The cultivated plants of the tropics and subtropics. 1991 (CultTropS)
Soukup, J. Vocabulario de los nombres vulgares de la flora peruana. (Names Soukup)

Check other web resources for Capsicum baccatum L. var. pendulum (Willd.) Eshbaugh :

TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Databas of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2026. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://germoplasma.iniaf.gob.bo/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=70148. Accessed 7 junio 2026.