Piper betle L., 1753

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part P), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 718-782 : 745

Piper malamiris Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 1: 29. 1753 .

"Habitat in India utraque." RCN: 232.

Type not designated.

Original material: Herb. Hermann 2: 23, No. 28 ( BM) ; Herb. Hermann 2: 51, No. 28 ( BM) ; [icon] in Rheede, Hort. Malab. 7: 31, t. 16. 1688; [icon] in Plukenet, Phytographia: t. 215, f. 2. 1692; Almag. Bot.: 297. 1696.

Current name: Piper betle L. ( Piperaceae ).

Note: Huber (in Dassanayake & Fosberg, Revised Handb. Fl. Ceylon 6: 282. 1987) agreed the identity of the Hermann material (BM) but, claiming wrongly that there is no evidence linking the specimens with this name, he discarded it in favour of P sylvestre Lam.