Taxon: Piper longum L.

Genus:

Piper

Family:

Piperaceae

Nomen number:

400109

Place of publication:

Sp. pl. 1:29. 1753

Link to protologue:

Typification:

Name Verified on:

27-sep-1994 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last Changed: 27-sep-1994

Species priority site is:

Accessions:

0 in National Plant Germplasm System

Common names:

Indian long pepper (Source: Dict Rehm) - English
jaborandi pepper (Source: Dict Econ Pl) - English
long pepper (Source: World Econ Pl) - English
poivre long (Source: Dict Rehm) - French
langer Pfeffer (Source: Dict Rehm) - German
pimenta-longa (Source: Dict Rehm) - Portuguese
långpeppar (Source: Kulturvaxtdatabas) - Swedish
bi bo (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2) - Transcribed Chinese

Economic Importance:

Food additives: flavoring (spice fide Crops US)
Medicines: folklore (fide F Bhutan; CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)

Distributional Range:

Native

Asia-Tropical

INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India, Nepal

Cultivated

Asia-Temperate

CHINA: China

Asia-Tropical

INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India, Sri Lanka
INDO-CHINA: Myanmar, Vietnam
MALESIA: Indonesia

Naturalized

Asia-Tropical

INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: Sri Lanka
MALESIA: Philippines

References:

Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource on www.skud.info). 2012 (Kulturvaxtdatabas)
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource). (Ecocrop)
Guzman, C. C. de & J. S. Siemonsma, eds. 1999. Spices (Pl Res SEAs) 13:183-188.
Hara, H. et al. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal. 1978-1982 (L Nepal)
Kress, W. J. et al. A checklist of the trees, shrubs, herbs, and climbers of Myanmar. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 45. 2003 (L Myanmar)
Magness, J. R. et al. Food and feed crops of the United States. IR Bull. 1. 1971 (Crops US)
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)
Uphof, J. C. T. Dictionary of economic plants, ed. 2. 1968 (Dict Econ Pl)
Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. Flora of China (English edition). 1994- (F ChinaEng)

Check other web resources for Piper longum L. :

Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
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=400109. Accessed 18 mayo 2024.