Taxon: Piper aduncum L.

Genus:

Piper

Family:

Piperaceae

Nomen number:

316786

Place of publication:

Sp. pl. 1:29. 1753

Link to protologue:

Typification:

Name Verified on:

27-abr-1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last Changed: 09-may-2011

Species priority site is:

Accessions:

0 in National Plant Germplasm System

Synonyms:

Common names:

spiked pepper (Source: State Noxweed Seed) - English
aduncum (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
aperta-João (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
aperta-ruão (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
jaborandi-do-mato (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
jaborandi-falso (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
pimenta-do-fruto-ganchoso (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
cordoncillo (Source: pers. comm.) - Spanish
higuillo (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish
matico (Source: CRC MedHerbs ed2) - Spanish

Economic Importance:

Medicines: folklore (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
Weed: potential seed contaminant (mostly of unknown importance fide Atlas WWeed; Invasive Pl Spec)

Distributional Range:

Native

Northern America

Mexico (s.)

Southern America

CARIBBEAN: Barbados, Cuba, Dominica, Grenada, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Martinique, Puerto Rico, St. Vincent and Grenadines
CENTRAL AMERICA: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama
NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela
BRAZIL: Brazil (probably)
WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Bolivia, Colombia (probably), Ecuador, Peru

Naturalized

Asia-Tropical

PAPUASIA: Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands
MALESIA: Indonesia [Java]

Northern America

SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Florida]

Pacific

NORTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC: United States [Hawaii]
SOUTHWESTERN PACIFIC: Fiji

References:

Adams, C. Flowering plants of Jamaica. 1972 (F Jam)
Backer, C. A. & R. C. Bakhuizen van den Brink, Jr. Flora of Java. 1963-1968 (F Java)
Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45. 1993 (L Peru)
Burger, W. C., ed. Flora costaricensis. 1971- (F CostaR)
Callejas, R. 1998. pers. comm. (pers. comm.)
Duke, J. A. et al. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. 2002 (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. (pers. comm.)
Holm, L. et al. A geographical atlas of world weeds. 1979 (Atlas WWeed)
Howard, R. 1988. Flora of the lesser Antilles. 1974-1989 (F LAnt) 4:25.
Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): plant threats to Pacific ecosystems (on-line resource). (Pacif I Ecosyst Risk)
Killeen, T. J. et al. Guia de arboles de Bolivia. 1993 (Trees Bolivia)
Liogier, H. A. Descriptive flora of Puerto Rico and adjacent islands. 1984- (F PuertoR)
McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. 2000 (Herbs Commerce ed2)
Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994 (Dict Rehm)
Seed Regulatory and Testing Division, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A. State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act (updated annually). (State Noxweed Seed)
Smith, A. C. Flora vitiensis nova. 1979-1991 (F Viti)
Woodson, R. E. & R. W. Schery, eds. Flora of Panama. 1943-1980 (F Panama)
Wunderlin, R. & B. Hansen Atlas of Florida vascular plants (on-line resource). (Atlas Florida)

Check other web resources for Piper aduncum L. :

PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
BONAP North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program:
TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Databas of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
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=316786. Accessed 18 mayo 2024.