• Family : PIPERACEAE
  (Pepper Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : KALI MIRCH FAMILY (काली मिर्च फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : PIPERACEAE
• Basionym : Muldera trichostachya Miq.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Piper trichostachyon (Miq.) C. DC.
• Habit : Liana
• Habitat : Semi-evergreen and moist deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : Frequent
• Flower, Fruit : January-May
• Collection Nos : KFP 6156, KFP 11127
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Belagavi district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district, Dakshina Kannada district, Udupi district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnataka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi District; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; 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 trichostachyon. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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