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(Last Modified On 11/20/2012)
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(Last Modified On 11/20/2012)
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Species
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PIPER AEQUALE Vahl
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PlaceOfPublication
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Eclog. Amer. 1:4, pl. 3. 1796.
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Synonym
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Schilleria aequalis Kunth, in Linnaea 13:687. 1839. Artanthe aequalis Miq. Syst. Pip. 511. 1844. ?Piper Funckii C.DC. in DC. Prodr. 161:310. 1869. Piper substenocarpum C.DC. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 6:492. 1898. Piper concinnum C.DC. var. trinitense C.DC. in Urb. Symb. Ant. 3:304. 1902. Piper Jobnstoni C.DC. in Proc. Amer. Acad. 40:685. 1905. Piper caledonianum C.DC. in Fedde. Rep. Sp. Nov. 15:1. 1917. Piper aequale var. substenocarpum C.DC. in Ann. Conserv. & Jard. Bot. Geneve 21:253. 1920. Piper amphioxys Trel. in Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 26:31. 1927. Piper ibaguense Trel. in Trab. Mus. Nac. Hist. & Jard. Bot. Madr. Ser. Bot. 33:50. 1936. Piper zediogodiense Trel. ex L1. Williams, Expl. Bot. Guyana Venezol. 177. 1942.
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Description
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A glabrous, nodose shrub, 1-3 m. tall; flowering internodes slender and com- paratively short; leaves elongated-elliptic, lance-elliptic or ovate, 3.5-9 X 12-17 cm. long, apex more or less attenuate, bluntly acuminate, base equilaterally acute or obtusish, pinnately nerved to the upper third or nearly throughout, the nerves mostly 4-5 or 6 on each side, with fainter intermediates and cross-connecting- anastomosing nervules, commonly 2 or 3 pairs approximated near the base and 1 or 2 pairs above the middle of the blade, the nerves often golden in dry specimens, drying rather firm, somewhat glossy, narrowly revolute, translucent; petiole about 5-10 mm. long or sometimes up to 1.5 cm. on lower leaves, commonly vaginate near the base but occasional leaves vaginate to the middle or above; spikes 2-4 mm. thick and up to 10 cm. long; peduncle commonly about as long as the petiole; bracts rounded dome-shaped when young with submarginal fringe, becoming round- or triangular-subpeltate and loosely fringed; fruit small,, obpyramidal- trigonous, convex at the top, glabrous; stigmas slender, sessile.
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Habit
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shrub
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Distribution
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West Indies, northern South America, and Panama.
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Specimen
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CANAL ZONE: Barro Colorado Island, Bailey & Bailey 495. COLON: Loma de la Gloria, near Fat6 (Nombre de Dios), alt. 10-104 m., Pittier 4239.
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