WorldFloraDB - Piper interruptum

Characteristics

Climbers dioecious. Stems 2-4.5 mm thick, ridged, glabrous. Petiole 1-2.5(-4) cm, glabrous, sheathed at base only; leaf blade ovate to long ovate, 6-13 × 4-7 cm, ± membranous or papery, without evident glands, both surfaces glabrous, base rounded or shortly tapered, ± symmetric, apex acute or shortly acuminate; veins 5(-7), all basal; reticulate veins abaxially prominent, lax. Spikes leaf-opposed. Male spikes 11-27 cm × 1.5-3 mm; peduncle ca. as long as petioles, glabrous; bracts oblong, 3-4 × ca. 1 mm, adnate to rachis, margin free, apex ± rounded. Stamens 2(or 3). Female spikes 7-17 cm, flowers unevenly developed, sparse or interrupted in fruit; peduncle nearly as long as opposite leaves, glabrous; rachis and bracts as in male spikes. Ovary distinct, ovoid, apex acute; stigmas 4 or 5. Drupe ovoid or ovoid-globose, 3-6 × 2-4 mm, smooth. Fl. May-Jun.

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Dioecious vine. Leaves with petioles 0.4–3 cm long; lamina ovate to narrowly ovate-elliptic, 5–16 cm long, 2.2–8.5 cm wide, glabrous or with a few short hairs at base and on petiole; base cuneate or lobed, commonly asymmetric; apex acuminate; 1 or 2 pairs of secondary veins radiating from base of midvein, another pair slightly above. Spikes solitary, leaf-opposed, pendulous, 2–4 mm wide; peduncle 0.8–1.8 cm long; bracts adnate to rachis, broadened apically, margins free. Rachis hairy: male 5.2–11.5 cm long; female 7–19 cm long. Stamens 3. Stigmas 3, sessile. Fruiting spike 7–19 cm long, 2–4 mm diam. Fruit sub-sessile to sessile, ovoid to spherical, free, arranged at intervals along rachis, green to black.

A slender vine. The stem is 2 cm across. The leaves are 8-12 cm long by 4-7 cm wide. The leaf stalk is 1-1.5 cm long. The flowers are opposite the leaves. The flowering shoots are 7-9 cm long.

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Growth support

climber

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Sexuality

dioecy

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Mature width (meter)

0.02

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Root system

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Blooming months

Jan	Feb	Mar
Apr	May	Jun
Jul	Aug	Sep
Oct	Nov	Dec

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Environment

Climbs up tree trunks in complex mesophyll and notophyll vine forest, littoral closed forest and dense tropical rainforest; commonly in basalt-derived soils at altitudes from 10 to 2500 metres.

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It is a tropical plant. In north Australia it grows from sea level to 750 m above sea level.

Rainforest at elevations from near sea level to 750 metres in northeast Australia.

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Usage

Uses	material medicinal social use
Edible	leaves stems
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Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.

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Distribution

Identifiers

LSID	urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:681773-1
WFO ID	wfo-0000486133
COL ID	4J4FG
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Wikipedia (EN)
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Piper abraense Piper cumingianum Piper clemensiae Piper loheri Piper laevirameum Piper triandrum Piper pulogense Piper samaranum Piper pilispicum Piper interruptum Piper ellipticibaccum Piper interruptum var. multinervum

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