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Genus: Piper (pepper)
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plants) > magnoliids > Order: Piperales
> Family: Piperaceae About 1000
species (cosmopolitan in warm regions), with two species
native to southern Africa and an additional two species (including
Black
pepper Piper nigrum) cultivated in southern Africa.
Species native to southern Africa
List from
Plants
of Southern Africa - an Online Checklist (SANBI),
Flora of
Zimbabwe and
Flora of Mozambique.
Piper capense (Wild
pepper, Bospeper)
Found in forests from Swellendam in the Cape, up the east coast and into
tropical Africa. |
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Piper umbellatum
Pantropical. Native to sub-Saharan Africa, extending as
far south as Zimbabwe and Mozambique. |
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Other species, cultivated in southern Africa
List from Glen (2002).
Piper betle (Betel pepper)
Native to the Indo-Malesian region.
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Piper nigrum (Pepper)
Native to southern India and Sri Lanka.
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