Piper capense

Piper capense

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Piperales 
Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Magnoliids
Ordo: Piperales

Familia: Piperaceae
Subfamilia: Piperoideae
Genus: Piper
Species:
Varietieʂː P. c. var. brachyrhachis – P. c. var. capense

Name

Piper capense L.f., 1782

Synonyms

  • 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)

Distribution

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

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

  • Linnaeus, C. (filius) 1782 ["1781"]. Supplementum Plantarum systematis vegetabilium editionis decimae tertiae, generum plantarum editionis sextae, et specierum plantarum editionis secundae. [XVI]+468 pp. Impensis Orphanotrophei, Brunsvigae [Braunschweig]. BHL Reference page. : 90

Additional references

  • Gosline, G., Bidault, E., van der Burgt, X., Cahen, D., Challen, G., Condé, N., Couch, C., Couvreur, T.L.P., Dagallier, L.M.J., Darbyshire, I., Dawson, S., Doré, T.S., Goyder, D., Grall, A., Haba, P., Haba, P., Harris, D., Hind, D.J.N., Jongkind, & al. (2023). A Taxonomically-verified and Vouchered Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Republic of Guinea. Nature, scientific data 10, Article number: 327: [1]-[12].

Vernacular names

  • Afrikaans: bospeper, wildepeper, sterkpeper
  • English: wild pepper