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Capsicum caatingae, commonly known as pimenta brava, is a species of wild chili pepper in the nightshade family Solanaceae. It is a shrub native to eastern Brazil. It was described by Gloria E. Barboza and Maria de Fátima Agra in 2011, and is treated in the 2022 monograph of the genus Capsicum by Barboza and colleagues.
It is native to northeastern Brazil, ranging south to northern Minas Gerais, where it grows in a seasonally dry tropical climate.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Capsicum caatingae by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
