Piper capense

Taxonavigation

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

Piper capense L.f., 1782

Homotypic
- Coccobryon capense (L.f.) Klotzsch in Syst. Piperac.: 343 (1844)
- Cubeba capensis (L.f.) Miq. in Syst. Piperac.: 303 (1843)
- Peperomia capensis (L.f.) G.Don in J.C.Loudon, Hort. Brit.: 13 (1830)

Native distribution areas:

Continental: Africa
- Regional: Western Africa
  - Angola, Cameroon, DR Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Is., Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone
- Regional: Central Africa
  - Burundi, Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
- Regional: Southern Africa
  - Cape Provinces, KwaZulu-Natal, Northern Provinces
- Regional: Mascareñas
  - Comoros
- Regional: Eastern Africa
  - Eswatini, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Sudan-South Sudan, Tanzania
- Regional: Western Indian Ocean
  - Madagascar
- Introduced into:
  - Bangladesh

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