Synonyms:

• Basionym: Piper pellucidum L.

Common names:

• ogräspeperomia  (Source: Kulturvaxtdatabas) - Swedish

Economic Importance:

• Human food: vegetable (fide Pl Res SEAs 12(1):379. 1999)
• Medicines: folklore (fide Pl Res SEAs 12(1):379. 1999)
• Non-vertebrate poisons: potential for plant pest control (fide Pl Book)
• Weed: (mostly of unknown importance fide Atlas WWeed)

Distributional Range:

Native

Africa

• NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Ethiopia, Somalia
• EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
• WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA: Burundi, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, [Bioko] Gabon, Sao Tome and Principe, Zaire
• WEST TROPICAL AFRICA: Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone
• SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA: Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Asia-Temperate

• ARABIAN PENINSULA: Oman, Yemen

Asia-Tropical

• PAPUASIA: Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands

Northern America

• Mexico

Pacific

• SOUTHWESTERN PACIFIC: Samoa

Southern America

• CARIBBEAN: Antigua and Barbuda, [Antigua] Barbados, Cuba, Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, St. Kitts and Nevis, [St. Kitts] St. Lucia, St. Vincent and Grenadines, [St. Vincent] Virgin Islands (British), [Tortola] Virgin Islands (U.S.)
• CENTRAL AMERICA: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama
• NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela
• BRAZIL: Brazil
• WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
• SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina [Salta]


Naturalized

Africa

• WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN: Reunion

Asia-Temperate

• CHINA: China (s.)

Asia-Tropical

• INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: Bhutan, India, Sri Lanka
• INDO-CHINA: Thailand, Vietnam
• MALESIA: Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines

Australasia

• AUSTRALIA: Australia

Northern America

• SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Florida, Georgia (s.e.), Louisiana (s.)]

Pacific

• NORTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC: United States [Hawaii]
• NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC: Guam, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau
• SOUTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC: French Polynesia
• SOUTHWESTERN PACIFIC: Fiji


Other (exact native range obscure, probable origin neotropics)

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