Capsicum annuum

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Family Solanaceae

Taxonomy: Capsicum annuum L.

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC): NT (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised)

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NSW Flora, NT eFlora, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: Cooper_2013 (14), Crowley_2007 (2), NHNSW_2014_2 (4), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (16), Nano_2011 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 27 traits from 44 records in 8 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

fire response

resprouting_capacity (categorical): fire_killed (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 21.25 mm (10-25 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_width (numerical): 7.5 mm (5-10 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_height (numerical): 7.5 mm (5-10 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): berry (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_colour (categorical): orange (1); red (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 120 mm (120-120 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 50 mm (50-50 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 2.5 cm (1-4 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): ovate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): prostrate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
dispersers (categorical): birds (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnyyyyyyyyn (1); yynnnnnnnnny (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2014_2]
bud_bank_location (categorical): none (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 3 mm (3-3 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 2 m (2-2 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NHNSW_2023	13	16	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Cooper_2013	11	14	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
NHNSW_2014_2	4	4	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NHNSW_2022	3	3	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Crowley_2007	2	2	G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Nano_2011	2	2	C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.