- Family : PIPERACEAE
(Pepper Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : KALI MIRCH FAMILY (काली मिर्च फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Piperaceae
- Basionym : Piper pellucidum L.
- Synonym(s) : Micropiper pellucidum (L.) Miq.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Peperomia pellucida (L.) Kunth
- Vernacular name :
- Neeru kaddi gida (Kannada)
- Kannadippacha, Mashipatcha, Mashithandu, Make-pacha, Slettipacha, Thaklippan (Malayalam)
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Degraded forest areas and wasteland near moist and shaded places
- Flower, Fruit : August-February
- Distribution :
- Kerala : All districts of Kerala
- Odisha : Cuttack district, Ganjam district
- Arunachal Pradesh : Kameng, Subansiri, Tirap
- Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
- Native : Angola, Argentina, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Brazil, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Repu, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, French Guiana, Gabon, Georgia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Biss
- Exotic/Native : Exotic
- World Distribution : Pantropical weed
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
- G.S Giri., A.Pramanik., H.J. Chowdhery., G.D Pal and S.K. Das (2008). Materials for Arunachal Pradesh, Vol (2), Pg: 321
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Peperomia pellucida. Downloaded on 7 September 2024.
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Botanical Description
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Herbarium Specimen(s)
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Line Drawings
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Field Image(s)
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India Distribution
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World Distribution
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![](world_map.php?country_list=Angola, Argentina, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Brazil, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Repu, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, French Guiana, Gabon, Georgia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Biss,Pantropical weed) |
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