Piper peepuloides Roxb. Hort. Bengal, 1820

Mukherjee, Prasanta Kumar, 2018, Nomenclatural notes on Piper Linn. (Piperaceae) from India II, Phytotaxa 338 (1), pp. 17-32 : 25-26

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https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.338.1.2

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scientific name

Piper peepuloides Roxb. Hort. Bengal
status

 

15. Piper peepuloides Roxb. Hort. Bengal View in CoL 4. 1814, nom . nudum; et Fl. Ind. i. 159. 1820

Type:— BANGLADESH: Silhet , Piper pipuloides Roxb. in Wallich 6650 A (lectotype designated here K000794359 image!; isolectotype BM 000949831 image!, K000794360 image! K000794361 image!) .

Chavica peepuloides (Roxb.) Miq. Syst. Piperac. 237. 1843.

Basionym:— Piper peepuloides Roxb. Hort. Bengal 4. 1814, nom . nud. et Fl. Ind. i. 1: 159. 1820.

Chavica neesiana Miq. Syst. Piperac. 249. 1843.

Type :— NEPAL: Wallich 6656 (lectotype designated here U1476536 image!; syntype Wallich 6654 B U146537 image!) .

Piper arunachalensis Gajurel, Rethy & Kumar Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 137: 417.2001 nom invalid syn. nov.

Type:— INDIA: Arunachal Pradesh, Durpang R. F., Banderdawa, Gajurel 79 et 80 (isotypes CAL!).

Distribution:— INDIA: West Bengal, Sikkim, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya; BANGLADESH, BHUTAN, NEPAL.

Note:— The species is closely similar in its leaves and general appearance to P. mullesua but differs in having sub sessile leaves and male and female spikes. Piper arunachalensis Gajurel, Rethy & Kumar is an invalid name as two holotypes were simultaneously cited (Art. 8.1 & 9.10 in McNeill et al., 2012). Both of them are very similar to type of P. peepuloides .

McNeill, J., Barrie, F. R., Buck, W. R., Demoulin, V., Greuter, W., Hawksworth, D. L., Herendeen, P. S., Knapp, S., Marhold, K., Prado, J., Prud'homme Van Reine, W. F. F., Smith, G. F., Wiersema, J. H., & Turland, N. J. (2012) International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (Melbourne Code). Koeltz Scientific Books, Konigstein, 208 pp.

A

Harvard University - Arnold Arboretum

B

Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Zentraleinrichtung der Freien Universitaet

R

Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile

F

Field Museum of Natural History, Botany Department

CAL

Botanical Survey of India

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Piperales

Family

Piperaceae

Genus

Piper