Piper aduncumL.

higuillo de hoja menuda

WFO wfo-0000479665 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Piper aduncum, photographed by Ciencia1.com
fig. a Ciencia1.com, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-29 / obs. 201543869
Piper aduncum, photographed by Ashwin Srinivasan
fig. b Ashwin Srinivasan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 174856828
Piper aduncum, photographed by Ashwin Srinivasan
fig. c Ashwin Srinivasan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 174606308
Piper aduncum, photographed by Francisco Emilio Roldán Velasco
fig. d Francisco Emilio Roldán Velasco, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 170802377
Piper aduncum, photographed by Samuel Lee
fig. e Samuel Lee, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 170547802
Piper aduncum, photographed by Samuel Lee
fig. f Samuel Lee, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 156857891
Piper aduncum, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. g Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 123911732
Piper aduncum, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. h Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 117045394

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Native range 35 botanical countries

Regions where Piper aduncum is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Windward Is. Mexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico NorthwestMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestArgentina NortheastArgentina NorthwestBelizeBoliviaBrazil NorthBrazil NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralColombiaCosta RicaDominican RepublicEl SalvadorFrench GuianaGuatemalaGuyanaHaitiHondurasJamaicaNicaraguaPanamáParaguayPeruPuerto RicoSurinameTrinidad-TobagoVenezuela Leeward Is.Windward Is.
Native distribution of Piper aduncum, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Argentina Northeast AGE SOUTHERN AMERICA
Argentina Northwest AGW
Belize BLZ
Bolivia BOL
Brazil North BZN
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Dominican Republic DOM
El Salvador ELS
French Guiana FRG
Guatemala GUA
Guyana GUY
Haiti HAI
Honduras HON
Jamaica JAM
Leeward Is. LEE
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Paraguay PAR
Peru PER
Puerto Rico PUE
Suriname SUR
Trinidad-Tobago TRT
Venezuela VEN
Windward Is. WIN
Mexico Central MXC NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Northwest MXN
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 33 in flower of 45 examined

Peak flowering in Oct. Each bar is the share of Piper aduncum observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 33 of 45 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 9 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 89 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Artanthe adunca (L.) Miq.
  • Artanthe adunca f. angustifolia Miq.
  • Artanthe bahiensis C.Presl
  • Artanthe cearensis Miq.
  • Artanthe celtidifolia (Kunth) Miq.
  • Artanthe elongata f. brasiliensis Miq.
  • Artanthe elongata f. glabrior Miq.
  • Artanthe galeottii Miq.
  • Artanthe granulosa (Ruiz & Pav.) Miq.
  • Artanthe lanceata (A.Dietr.) Miq.
  • Artanthe linguifolia Miq.
  • Artanthe salviifolia Miq.
  • Artanthe velloziana Miq.
  • Lepianthes granulatum Raf.
  • Piper acutifolium var. membranaceum C.DC.
  • Piper aduncifolium Trel.
  • Piper aduncum subsp. ossanum (C.DC.) Saralegui
  • Piper aduncum var. brachyarthrum (Trel.) Yunck.
  • Piper aduncum var. laevifolium C.DC.
  • Piper aduncum var. laevilimbum C.DC.
  • Piper aduncum var. sigualense Trel.
  • Piper angustifolium Ruiz & Pav.
  • Piper angustifolium var. cordulatum C.DC.
  • Piper angustifolium var. ossanum C.DC.

and 65 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.