A unique and distinctive landrace that usually has long leaves and tall, broad plants. Its kernels are extremely long and pointed, with a beak on the kernel. The race is related to the gourdseed/shoepeg corn that exists here in the U.S. The center of distribution with the purest forms is in Morelos and northern Guerrero in the upper Balsas River Basin. The origin of this unique landrace is believed to be a combination of characters from Palomero Tolequeno or another subrace of it and a many rowed tropical dent corn from the Pacific coastal plains or Balsas River Basin. The name is Spanish and refer to the similarity of the kernels to squash or pumpkin seeds, called "pepita chiquita," or pepitilla. 
Photo by Noel Orlando Gomez Montiel.