Accession #: 201100279
Accession Date: 2011-10-19
Common name: Pahari Pipul, Mountain Long Pepper
Family: Piperaceae
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Country of Origin: S Yunnan, Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
Description: Climbers herbaceous, dioecious. Stolons present. Stems ridged and furrowed when dry, very finely powdery pubescent when young. Petiole 1-7 cm, very finely powdery pubescent; prophylls 1/2 as long as petioles or slightly longer; leaf blade usually ovate, those at apex of stem ovate-lanceolate, 8-11 × 4-8.5 cm, papery, densely glandular, glabrous except for densely finely powdery pubescent veins abaxially and sometimes base of midvein adaxially, base cordate, symmetric, apex acuminate; veins 7, apical pair arising 0.7-1.5 cm above base, others basal; reticulate veins large, conspicuous, veinlets ascending Spikes leaf-opposed. Male spikes slender, 5-8 cm; bracts orbicular, peltate. Stamens 4; filaments short; anthers reniform. Female spikes erect, 1.5-2.5 cm × 3-4 mm; peduncle 0.5-2 cm, very finely powdery pubescent; bracts orbicular, ± sessile, adaxially pubescent; rachis pubescent, ca. 1.5 mm in diam. Ovary globose, distinct; stigmas 2 or 3, ovate, apex acuminate. Drupe globose, ca. 3 mm in diam., inserted within excavations of rachis. Fl. Aug-Sep.2
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USDA Zone: 10-11
Source: Black Jungle
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