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1. Piper Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 1: 28. 1753; Gen. Pl. ed. 5, 18, 1754.
Small trees, shrubs, subshrubs, or rarely herbs , erect or reclining, glabrous or pubescent. Leaves alternate, pubescent. Leaf blade conspicuously pinnately veined, lateral veins ascending-arching, connected by fainter, ladderlike, tertiary veins. Spikes opposite leaves, ascending-arching, densely flowered, distally drooping. Flowers sessile, borne on surface of rachis; floral bracts fringed with whitish hairs; stamens 2[-6]; stigmas [2-]3[-4]. Fruits sessile, oblong (inversely pyramidal-3-angled in P. auritum ); beak minute.
Species 1000 (2 in the flora): primarily tropics and subtropics.
This genus includes Piper nigrum Linnaeus, the source of black pepper and white pepper.
Measurements for spike length in all descriptions include the peduncle.
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Leaf blade obliquely rounded to obliquely cuneate at base; petiole not winged. |
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1 Piper aduncum |
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Leaf blade narrowly and deeply obliquely cordate at base; petiole winged at base. |
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2 Piper auritum |
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Lower Taxa
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