Piper retrofractum Vahl

  • Filed As

    Piperaceae
    Piper retrofractum Vahl

  • Collector(s)

    E. D. Merrill 523, Sep 1913

  • Location

    Philippines. Bulacan. Luzon.

  • Specimen Notes

    [Record databased by volunteers in the DIGIVOL Crowdsourcing Platform. Imported to NYBG database in 2021.]

  • Identifiers

    NY Barcode: 04158609

    Occurrence ID: 5bb06963-282b-400c-ba62-eab1509dc6a7

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  • Kingdom

    Plantae

  • Division

    Magnoliophyta

  • Order

    Piperales

  • Family

    Piperaceae

  • All Determinations

    Piper retrofractum Vahl

PIPERACEAE
M Eli H X L LI	*0o
SPECIES HLANCÜANAE NW. OÍ33
Piper retrofractum V’ahl
Piper parrifolium Blanco
PIPER Linnaeus
Piper parvifolium Blanco FL Filip. (1837) 23 (sp. nov.) ; ed. 2 (1845) 17;
ed. 3. 1 (1877) 32 = PIPER RETROFRACTUM Vahl.
The species is' common and widely distributed at low altitudes
in the Philippines and is especially abundant in those provinces
from which Blanco received most of his botanical material. It
is still known in the vicinity of Manila as sabia, the native name
cited by Blanco.
Illustrative specimen from Angat, Bulacan Province, Luzon,
September, 1913 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 523).
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