Piper aduncum

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Piperales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Magnoliids Ordo: Piperales

Piper aduncum L., 1753

Homotypic
- Artanthe adunca (L.) Miq. in Comm. Phytogr.: 49 (1840)
- Steffensia adunca (L.) Kunth in Linnaea 13: 633 (1840)

Piper aduncum Vell. in Fl. Flumin.: 26 (1829), sensu auct. vide Piper hispidum Sw. in Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ.: 15 (1788)

Native distribution areas:

Continental: Southern America
- Regional: Southern South America
  - Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Paraguay
- Regional: Central America
  - Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panamá
- Regional: Western South America
  - Bolivia, Peru
- Regional: Brazil
  - Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central
- Regional: Northern South America
  - Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela
- Regional:Caribbean
  - Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Puerto Rico, Trinidad-Tobago, Windward Is.
Continental: Northern America
- Regional: Mexico
  - Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest
- Introduced into:
  - Ascension, Christmas I., Fiji, Florida, Galápagos, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Solomon Is., Vanuatu

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