Piper mullesua Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don

 
  • Family : PIPERACEAE
    (Pepper Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : KALI MIRCH FAMILY (काली मिर्च फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : Piperaceae
  • Synonym(s) : Chavica guigual (Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don) Miq.; Chavica mullesua (Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don) Miq.; Chavica neesiana Miq.; Chavica peepuloides (Roxb.) Miq.; Chavica sphaerostachya Miq.; Peperomia peepuloides (Roxb.) A.Dietr.; Piper brachystachyum Wall. ex Hook.f.; Piper brachystachyum var. rhombicum Hook.f.; Piper guigual Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don; Piper isopleurum C.DC.; Piper listeri C.DC.; Piper mullesua Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don; Piper mullesua var. rhombica (Hook.f.) Karthik. & V.S.Kumar; Piper nirjulianum Gajurel, Rethy & Y.Kumar; Piper parvilimbum C.DC.; Piper pleiocarpum C.C.Chang ex Y.C.Tseng; Piper vasculosum Wall.; Piperi mullesuanum St.-Lag.
  • Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Piper peepuloides Roxb.
  • Common name : Wild Pepper, Pipli Pepper
  • Vernacular name :
    • Kattukurumulagu, Kattuthippali (Malayalam), Rari (Adi)
  • Habit : Climbing shrub
  • Habitat : Tropical evergreen forests, Shola
  • Comments / notes : In Aruncahal Pradesh, dried leaves are made into a paste with water and consumed to get relief from fever.
  • Key identification features : Leaves on aerial shoots with base slightly oblique, rounded and shallowly cordate; axillary buds few, minute and inconspicuous; petioles 3 - 10 mm; fruiting spikes shortly cylindric, rarely subglobose
  • 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
    • Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
    • Sikkim : Sikkim
    • West Bengal : Darjeeling district
    • Arunachal Pradesh : Kameng, Subansiri, Tirap, Changlang, Lohit
    • Meghalaya : Meghalaya
    • Assam : Assam
    • Nagaland : Nagaland
    • Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
    • Mizoram : Mizoram
    • Manipur : Manipur
    • Tripura : Tripura
  • Native : Bangladesh, China, Bhutan, Hainan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand
  • Exotic/Native : Native
  • World Distribution : Bangladesh, China, Bhutan, Hainan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand
  • 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.
    • G.S Giri., A.Pramanik., H.J. Chowdhery., G.D Pal and S.K. Das (2008). Materials for Arunachal Pradesh, Vol (2), Pg: 324-326
    • Uniyal B.P., Sharma J.R., Choudhery U., Singh D.K. (2007). Flowering Plants of Uttarakhand: A Checklist. Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh: 210
    • GRIERSON A.J.C. & LONG D.G. (1983). FLORA OF BHUTAN INCLUDING A RECORD OF PLANTS FROM SIKKIM Vol. 1: Part 2. ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, EDINBURGH: 350
  • Read more :
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Piper mullesua. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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