Piper hederaceum

Piper hederaceum, also known as the giant pepper vine, is a vine in the pepper family Piperaceae. It is endemic to eastern Australia, growing in rainforests from Lockhart River, Queensland to Bermagui, New South Wales.

Giant pepper vine
In fruit at the Cairns Botanic Gardens, December 2022
Conservation status
Least Concern (NCA)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Magnoliids
Order:	Piperales
Family:	Piperaceae
Genus:	Piper
Species:	P. hederaceum
Binomial name
Piper hederaceum (Miq.) C.DC.[2][3]
Synonyms[3]
Cubeba hederacea Miq.

Taxonomy

This species was first described in 1845 by the Dutch botanist Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel, who gave it the combination Cubeba hederacea and published his description in The London Journal of Botany.^[4] It was subsequently transferred to Piper hederaceum in 1869 by the Swiss botanist Anne Casimir Pyramus de Candolle, writing in the book Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis.^[5]

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References

1. "Species profile—Piper hederaceum". Queensland Department of Environment and Science. Queensland Government. 2022. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
2. "Piper hederaceum". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI). Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
3. "Piper hederaceum (Miq.) C.DC". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
4. Miquel, F.A.G. (1845). "Animadversiones in Piperaceas". The London Journal of Botany. 4: 435. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
5. "Piper hederaceum". International Plant Names Index (IPNI). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2021. Retrieved 26 January 2023.

External links

• Data related to Piper hederaceum at Wikispecies
• Media related to Piper hederaceum at Wikimedia Commons
• View a map of historical sightings of this species at the Australasian Virtual Herbarium
• View observations of this species on iNaturalist
• View images of this species on Flickriver