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Piperaceae

胡椒科

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Peperomia 椒草屬
Piper 胡椒屬
Zippelia 齊頭絨屬
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Piper 胡椒屬

作者

LIN, TZER-TONG and LU, SHENG-YOU

型態特徵

Dioecious or rarely monoecious, or sometimes flowers perfect, shrubs or herbs, mostly scandent climbing, with prominent nodes, somewhat aromatic. Leaves entire, alternate, petiolate, usually stipulate, simple, often unequally sided. Inflorescences spicate, leaf-opposed or axillary, densely flowered. Flowers minute, sessile, mostly unisexual, each subtended by a peltate bract; perianth none; stamens 2 or more, anthers usually 2-celled; ovary 1-celled, 1-ovuled; stigmas mostly 2–5. Fruit small, subglobose or ovoid, 1-seeded.

About 2,000 species, pantropical. Nine species in Taiwan.