• 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) : Unresolved name
• Habit : Climbing shrub
• Habitat : Shola forests
• Flower, Fruit : November-April
• Collection Nos : CS 1187
• Collection Locality : Conoor, Tamil Nadu
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Mysuru district
  • Kerala : Palakkad district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Kollam district
  • Tamil Nadu : The Nilgiri district
• Endemism : Southern Western Ghats
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnataka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
• 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 schmidtii. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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