Capsicum macrophyllum(Dun.) Standl. Suffrutescent herb or shrub, to 3 (4) m tall; stems, petioles, and midribs often purplish when young, nearly glabrous or sparsely pubescent with short, stiff, uncinate or appressed trichomes. Leaves alternate or subopposite in unequal pairs; petioles mostly 1-5 cm long, flat and marginally ridged above, the ridges extending along stem to next node; blades ovate to elliptic-oblong, acuminate, obtuse to subcordate and sometimes somewhat inequilateral at base, mostly 8-20 cm long, 3.5-11 cm wide, glabrous or sparsely scabrous and moderately shiny above, duller below, the trichomes sparse or restricted to veins. Fascicles dense, axillary; flowers minutely pubescent, greenish-yellow; calyx truncate, sparsely pubescent, to 2 mm long; corolla 4- or 5-lobed, 6-9 mm long, divided about halfway to base, the lobes spreading; stamens 4 or 5, broad, ca 5.3 mm long; filaments adnate to tube basally, densely villous in basal half; anthers acute at apex; ovary ovoid, glabrous, ca 1 mm long; style 4 mm long. Berries depressed-globose, ca 8 mm diam, orange-red; seeds many, ca 1.3 mm long, densely alveolate-ridged. Croat 12199. Occasional, in the Laboratory Clearing; rarely encountered in the forest as a shrub. Flowering and fruiting Mexico to Brazil; the Antilles. In Panama, known from tropical moist forest in the Canal Zone, Bocas del Toro, San Blas, Chiriqui, Los Santos, Panama, and Darien, from premontane wet forest in Chiriqui, Coclé and Panama, from tropical wet forest in Colón, Coclé and Panama, from premontane rain forest in Chiriqui, Panama, and Darien, and from lower montane wet forest in Chiriqui.

Bocas Species Database

Characteristics: Arbusto de ± 2m. Flores amarillo-verdosas. Frutos verdes. Shrub ± 2m. Yellow-green flowers. Green fruits.