Common name: Chilli
Capsicum frutescens L. APNI* 
Description: Herb or shrub to 2 m high.
Leaves ovate to narrow-ovate, to 10 cm long and to 5 cm wide, frequently smaller, glabrous; petiole usually 1–3 cm long.
Flowers usually several in each axil; fruiting pedicel 15–25 mm long. Corolla c. 8 mm diam., white or green. Ovary 1.5–2 mm long.
Berry erect, narrow-conical to narrow-ellipsoid or fusiform, 10–20 mm long, 3–7 mm diam., red.
Flowering: summer.
Distribution and occurrence: Uncommon weed, collected from Gunnedah and Murwillumbah districts. Native of trop. Amer.
NSW subdivisions: *NC, *NWS
Other Australian states: *Qld
Text by B. J. Conn
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)
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