Biology:Piper hederaceum

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Short description: Species of flowering plant

Giant pepper vine
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In fruit at the Cairns Botanic Gardens, December 2022
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Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Magnoliids
Order: Piperales
Family: Piperaceae
Genus: Piper
Species:
P. hederaceum
Binomial name
Piper hederaceum
(Miq.) C.DC.[1][2]
Synonyms[2]
  • Cubeba hederacea Miq.

Piper hederaceum, commonly known as the giant pepper vine, is a species of plants in the pepper family Piperaceae. It is a twining climber with a stem diameter up to 15 cm (5.9 in) which is endemic to eastern Australia, found from Lockhart River, Queensland, to Bermagui, New South Wales. It inhabits tropical, subtropical and temperate rainforest at altitudes from sea level to about 1,200 m (3,900 ft).[3][4][5]

Taxonomy

This species was first described as Cubeba hederacea in 1845 by Dutch botanist Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel, who published his description in The London Journal of Botany.[6] It was subsequently transferred to Piper hederaceum in 1869 by the Swiss botanist Anne Casimir Pyramus de Candolle, writing in the book Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis.[7]

Infraspecies

Two varieties are recognised:[2]

  • Piper hederaceum var. hederaceum [4]
  • Piper hederaceum var. longiorispicum[5]

Conservation

This species is listed as least concern under the Queensland Government's Nature Conservation Act.[8] As of January 2025, it has not been assessed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

References

  1. ↑ "Piper hederaceum". Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government. https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/name/apni/80691. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Piper hederaceum (Miq.) C.DC.". Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:681632-1#synonyms. 
  3. ↑ Spokes, T.M. (2022). "Piper hederaceum". Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water: Canberra. https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Piper%20hederaceum. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Piper hederaceum var. hederaceum". Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research (CANBR), Australian Government. 2020. https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/entities/piper_hederaceum_var._hederaceum.htm. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Piper hederaceum var. longiorispicum". Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research (CANBR), Australian Government. 2020. https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/entities/piper_hederaceum_var._longiorispicum.htm. 
  6. ↑ Miquel, F.A.G. (1845). "Animadversiones in Piperaceas". The London Journal of Botany 4: 435. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/773589. Retrieved 26 January 2023. 
  7. ↑ "Piper hederaceum". Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2021. https://www.ipni.org/n/681632-1. 
  8. ↑ "Species profile—Piper hederaceum". Queensland Government. 2022. https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species-search/details/?id=30283. 

Wikidata ☰ Q15601444 entry



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