Biology:Piper guahamense
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Magnoliids |
| Order: | Piperales |
| Family: | Piperaceae |
| Genus: | Piper |
| Species: | P. guahamense
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| Piper guahamense C.DC. (1869)
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Piper guahamense, the Guam pepper[1] (Chamorro: pupulun aniti), is a plant in the family Piperaceae, and is endemic to the Mariana Islands.[2]
Description and habitat
P. guahamense morphologically resembles the kava pepper, and it has a similar aroma and taste. It is common in shady, moist forests and streamside.[1]
Taxonomy
Piper guahamense was first classified as being in the Macropiper genus by in 1839 by Dutch botanist Friedrich Miquel.[3]
The name Piper guahamense was first recorded in 1869 in the 16th volume of Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis by Swiss botanist, Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle.[4] However, later authors grouped it into the narrower genus Macropiper, which consisted of only 9 species, all in the Pacific Ocean. The species is now subsumed under the large genus Piper.[3]
Invertebrate ecology
Several species of insect have been recovered exclusively from Piper guahamense. The following is a list of endemic insects that are possibly host-specific. All were collected during a 1911 and 1936 entomological surveys of the island:
- a leafhopper (Batrachomorphus viridoflavidus) (collected from Dededo and Mt. Alifan on Guam)[5]
- a leafhopper (Bythoscopus viridofiavidus) (collected from Dededo).
- a plant bug (Lygus fullawayi) (collected from Agiguan, Mt. Lasso on Tinian, and on Guam on Mt. Santa Rosa and Mt. Lamlam)[6]
- a plant bug (Zanchius piperi) (collected only on Guam and apparently named after its host plant)[7]
The following insects are endemic to the Marianas or Micronesia and have been observed on Piper guahamense and other other plant species: a spittlebug (Lallemandana phalerata),[8] a rove beetle (Palaminus swezeyi),[9] an ant-like leaf beetle (Euglenes bifossicollis),[10] a tumbling flower beetle (Mordellistena castanea), a chalcid wasp (Ooencyrtus swezeyi),[11] three planthoppers (Tambinia guamensis, Ugyops samoaensis, and Capelopterum punctatellum),[12] and four true weevils (Trigonops inusitata, Trigonops vulgaris, Daealus tuberosus, and Cryphalus swezeyi) (Elwood C. Zimmerman noted extensive perforations in the leaves of Piper guahamense due to Trigonops).[13][14]
Non-endemic invertebrates collected from Piper guahamense include a plant bug (Creontiades pallidifer),[15] a chalcicoid wasp (Spalangia endius), and a fungus weevil (Araecerus vieillardi).[16]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Safford, William Edwin (1905) (in en). The Useful Plants of the Island of Guam. U.S. Government Printing Office. pp. 354–355. https://books.google.com/books?id=sa0tAAAAYAAJ. Retrieved 4 September 2023.
- ↑ "Piper guahamense C.DC. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science" (in en). http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:681582-1.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Smith, Albert C. (July 1975). "The genus Macropiper (Piperaceae)*" (in en). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 71 (1): 1–38. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.1975.tb00936.x.
- ↑ Candolle, Augustin Pyramus de (1869) (in Latin). Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis, sive, Enumeratio contracta ordinum, generum, specierumque plantarum, huc usque cognitarum, juxta methodi naturalis normas digesta. 16. Paris: Victoris Masson et Filii. pp. 385. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/7167.
- ↑ Metcalf, Z. P. (1946). "Fulgoroidea and Jassoidea of Guam". Insects of Guam-II. Honolulu, GU: Bernice P. Bishop Museum. pp. 136. http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/pubs-online/pdf/b189p105-148.pdf.
- ↑ Carvalho, Jose C. M. (1956). "Heteroptera: Miridae". Insects of Micronesia. Honolulu, HI: Bernice P. Bishop Museum. pp. 84–85. http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/pubs-online/pdf/iom7-1.pdf.
- ↑ Carvalho, Jose C. M. (1956). "Heteroptera: Miridae". Insects of Micronesia. Honolulu, HI: Bernice P. Bishop Museum. pp. 68–69. http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/pubs-online/pdf/iom7-1.pdf.
- ↑ Lallemand, O. H.. "Cercopidae of Guam". Cercopidae. Honolulu, HI: Bernice P. Bishop Museum. pp. 17. http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/pubs-online/pdf/bull172.pdf.
- ↑ Bernhauer, Max (1942). "Staphylinidae of Guam". Staphylinidae. Honolulu, HI: Bernice P. Bishop Museum. pp. 42–43. http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/pubs-online/pdf/bull172.pdf.
- ↑ Blair, K. G. (1942). "Coleoptera Heteromera from Guam". Insects of Guam-I. Honolulu, HI: Bernice P. Bishop Museum. pp. 57–58. http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/pubs-online/pdf/bull172.pdf.
- ↑ PLANTS OF GUAM-II. Honolulu, HI: Bernice P. Bishop Museum. 1946. http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/pubs-online/pdf/bull189.pdf.
- ↑ Metcalf, Z. P. (1946). "Fulgoroidea and Jassoidea of Guam". Insects of Guam-II. Honolulu, HI: Bernice P. Bishop Museum. pp. 118–119. http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/pubs-online/pdf/b189p105-148.pdf.
- ↑ Zimmerman, Elwood C. (1942). "Curculionidae of Guam". Insects of Guam-I. Honolulu, HI: Bernice P. Bishop Museum. pp. 83-84, 92-93, 111-112. http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/pubs-online/pdf/bull172.pdf.
- ↑ Schedl, Karl E. (1942). "Barkbeetles of Guam". Insects of Guam-I. Honolulu, HI: Bernice Bishop Museum. pp. 147–148. http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/pubs-online/pdf/bull172.pdf.
- ↑ Carvalho, Jose C. M. (1956). "Heteroptera: Miridae". Insects of MIcronesia. Honolulu, HI: Bernice P. Bishop Museum. pp. 79–81. http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/pubs-online/pdf/iom7-1.pdf.
- ↑ Zimmerman, Elwood C. (1942). "Anthribidae of Guam". Insects of Guam-I. Honolulu, HI: Bernice P. Bishop Museum. pp. 72. http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/pubs-online/pdf/bull172.pdf.
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