Microtea

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.^[2]

Microtea
Botanical illustration of Microtea glochidiata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Order:	Caryophyllales
Family:	Microteaceae Schäferhoff & Borsch (2010)
Genus:	Microtea Sw. (1788)[1]
Species
10; see text
Synonyms[2]
Ancistrocarpus Kunth (1817) Ceratococca Willd. (1820) Potamophila Schrank (1821) Schollera Rohr (1792), nom. illeg.

Species

Ten species are currently accepted.^[2]

• Microtea bahiensis Marchior. & J.C.Siqueira
• Microtea celosioides (Spreng.) Moq. ex Sennikov & Sukhor.
• Microtea debilis Sw. – weak jumby pepper
• Microtea glochidiata Moq.
• Microtea maypurensis (Kunth) G.Don
• Microtea papillosa Marchior. & J.C.Siqueira
• Microtea portoricensis Urb. – Puerto Rico jumby pepper
• Microtea scabrida Urb.
• Microtea sulcicaulis Chodat
• Microtea tenuifolia Moq.

Microtea was originally placed in the family Phytolaccaceae, but is now placed in its own family, the Microteaceae.^[3]