Taxon: Piper guineense Thonn.

Genus:

Piper

Family:

Piperaceae

Nomen number:

28582

Place of publication:

C. F. Schumacher, Beskr. Guin. pl. 19. 1827

Link to protologue:

Comment:

authorship verified from original literature, where the name and diagnosis together (Melbourne ICN Art. 46, Ex. 9. 12, & 22) and the description are all ascribed to Thonning

Typification:

Name Verified on:

01-ago-1995 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last Changed: 21-may-2013

Species priority site is:

Accessions:

0 in National Plant Germplasm System

Common names:

ashanti pepper (Source: Dict Gard) - English
Benin pepper (Source: Dict Gard) - English
Guinea cubeb (Source: Dict Gard) - English
poivre d'Anchantis (Source: Dict Rehm) - French
Aschantipfeffer (Source: Dict Rehm) - German
pimienta de Guinea (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish

Economic Importance:

Environmental: ornamental (fide Dict Gard; Zander ed14)

Distributional Range:

Native

Africa

EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Uganda
WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA: Cameroon, Central African Republic
WEST TROPICAL AFRICA: Benin, Cote D'Ivoire, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria

Cultivated

(also cult.)

References:

Huxley, A., ed. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. 1992 (Dict Gard)
Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994 (Dict Rehm)

Check other web resources for Piper guineense Thonn. :

ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://germoplasma.iniaf.gob.bo/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=28582. Accessed 18 mayo 2024.