• Family : PIPERACEAE
  (Pepper Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : KALI MIRCH FAMILY (काली मिर्च फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : PIPERACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Piper mullesua Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don
• Common name : Wild pepper
• Vernacular name : Kattukurumulagu, Kattuthippali (Malayalam)
• Habit : Climbing shrub
• Habitat : Evergreen and shola forests
• Flower, Fruit : January-April
• Collection Nos : KFP 8577, KFP 11493, T & T.P.R 1
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Kodagu (Coorg) district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Dindigul district, Theni district, The Nilgiri district, Tirunelveli district
• Endemism : Peninsular India and north east India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Flora of Karnataka, Saldanha, 1984; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1987). Flora of Tamilnadu, India vol. 2.
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Piper mullesua. Downloaded on 31 October 2025.

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