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Piper
Family:
Piperaceae
FNA
Resources
David E. Boufford in Flora of North America (vol. 3)
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.
This genus includes Piper nigrum Linnaeus, the source of black pepper and white pepper.
Measurements for spike length in all descriptions include the peduncle.
Species within checklist:
Sonoran Desert Region
Piper auritum
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Piper hispidum
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Piper jaliscanum
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Piper villiramulum
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This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services [MG-70-19-0057-19].
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