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Microtea
Sign in to saveMicrotea, the jumby peppers, are a genus of flowering plants in the family Microteaceae, native to the Caribbean islands, Central America, and tropical South America.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderCaryophyllales
- FamilyMicroteaceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 369
- With media
- 33
- Family
- Microteaceae
- Collections
- WIS, IAP, UNIVASF, UFERSA, NY, UFPB
- Recorded in
- United States, Brasil, Brazil
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Microtea, the jumby peppers, are a genus of flowering plants in the family Microteaceae, native to the Caribbean islands, Central America, and tropical South America.
==Species== Ten species are currently accepted. Microtea bahiensis Microtea celosioides Microtea debilis – weak jumby pepper Microtea glochidiata Microtea maypurensis Microtea papillosa Microtea portoricensis – Puerto Rico jumby pepper Microtea scabrida Microtea sulcicaulis Microtea tenuifolia
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Microtea” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.