EcoFlora - Piper

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 inventory project: Arizona Flora \|\| << 1 - 50 taxa >> Piper abajoense Media not available Map not Available Piper abalienatum Map not Available Piper abbreviatum Map not Available Piper abutiloides Media not available Map not Available Piper achoteanum Map not Available Piper achotense Map not Available Piper acutifolium Map not Available Piper acutilimbum Map not Available Piper acutiusculum Media not available Map not Available Piper adamatum Map not Available Piper adenandrum $Media resource of Piper adenandrum$ Map not Available Piper adreptum Media not available Map not Available Piper aduncum Map not Available Piper aequale Map not Available Piper aereum Map not Available Piper aeruginosibaccum Map not Available Piper affectans Map not Available Piper agellifolium Map not Available Piper aguadulcense Map not Available Piper agusanense Map not Available Piper alatabaccum Map not Available Piper albert-smithii Map not Available Piper albidiflorum Media not available Map not Available Piper aleyreanum Map not Available Piper allisum Media not available Map not Available Piper alnoides Map not Available Piper amalago Map not Available Piper amphioxys Map not Available Piper amplum $Media resource of Piper amplum$ Map not Available Piper andreanum $Media resource of Piper andreanum$ Map not Available Piper andresense $Media resource of Piper andresense$ Map not Available Piper angustifolium Map not Available Piper angustilimbum Media not available Map not Available Piper anisophyllum Map not Available Piper anisum Map not Available Piper anonifolium Map not Available Piper anostachyum Map not Available Piper antioquiense Media not available Map not Available Piper apertum Media not available Map not Available Piper arborescens Map not Available Piper arboreum Map not Available Piper arborioccupans Map not Available Piper arcteacuminatum Media not available Map not Available Piper arcuatum Map not Available Piper argentamentum Map not Available Piper aristolochioides Map not Available Piper armatum Map not Available Piper artanthe Map not Available Piper artanthopse Map not Available Piper articulatum Map not Available