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Shrubs or small trees, erect, 2-7 m, sparsely pubescent. Leaves: petiole ca. 1/20 length of leaf-blade, not winged. Leaf-blade oblong, ovate, widely lanceolate to elliptic, 11-24 × 4-8 cm, base obliquely rounded to obliquely cuneate, apex acuminate; surfaces abaxially soft-pubescent, adaxially scabrous. Spikes 8-15 cm. Fruits oblong, 2 sides flattened longitudinally, both ends × truncate, apex depressed, regularly pitted or reticulate; beak minute, ca. 0.1 mm.
Phenology: Flowering all year.
Habitat: Thickets, woodland margins
Elevation: 0-20 m
Distribution
Introduced; Fla., West Indies, Central America, South America
Discussion
Selected References
None.
Lower Taxa
None.
"/20lengthofleaf-blade" is not declared as a valid unit of measurement for this property.
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depressed;acuminate +
obliquely rounded;obliquely cuneate +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (?) +
peltate +
minute +
scanty +
sessile +
bisexual +
sessile +
oblong +
whitish +
Present +
axillary +
true +
connected +
ascending-arching +
ladderlike +
veined +
widely lanceolate;elliptic +
4cm;8cm +
simple +
pubescent +
basal +
superior +
absent +
abundant +
not winged +
absent +
Sp. Pl. +
1753 +
flattened +
flowered +
hypogynous +
adnate +
absent +
soft-pubescent +
scabrous +
Piper aduncum +
Piper +
species +
scattered +
rhizomatous +
glandular-dotted +
aromatic +
pubescent +
small +