Piper barbatumKunth

WFO wfo-0001092035 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Piper barbatum, photographed by Juan Carlos Caicedo Hernández
fig. a Juan Carlos Caicedo Hernández, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-29 / obs. 191930568
Piper barbatum, photographed by Andrés Ramírez-Barrera
fig. b Andrés Ramírez-Barrera, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 187194915
Piper barbatum, photographed by Juan Carlos Caicedo Hernández
fig. c Juan Carlos Caicedo Hernández, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 165897974
Piper barbatum, photographed by Andrés Ramírez-Barrera
fig. d Andrés Ramírez-Barrera, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 105580605
Piper barbatum, photographed by Andrew J. Crawford
fig. e Andrew J. Crawford, CC0 1.0 / obs. 38412496
Piper barbatum, photographed by Juan Carlos Caicedo Hernández
fig. f Juan Carlos Caicedo Hernández, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191958047
Piper barbatum, photographed by Juan Carlos Caicedo Hernández
fig. g Juan Carlos Caicedo Hernández, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191922578
Piper barbatum, photographed by Juan Carlos Caicedo Hernández
fig. h Juan Carlos Caicedo Hernández, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191955104

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Native range 5 botanical countries

Regions where Piper barbatum is native: Colombia, Ecuador, Panamá, Peru, Venezuela ColombiaEcuadorPanamáPeruVenezuela
Native distribution of Piper barbatum, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Colombia CLM SOUTHERN AMERICA
Ecuador ECU
Panamá PAN
Peru PER
Venezuela VEN

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.

Also published as 17 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 andicola (Kunth) Miq.
  • Artanthe barbata (Kunth) Miq.
  • Piper alpinum C.DC.
  • Piper andicola Kunth
  • Piper atrorameum C.DC.
  • Piper barbatum var. andicola (Kunth) Trel. & Yunck.
  • Piper barbatum var. isernii Trel.
  • Piper bogotense C.DC.
  • Piper bogotense var. foetans Trel. & Yunck.
  • Piper bogotense var. ovalilimbum Trel. & Yunck.
  • Piper bogotense var. usaquemense Trel.
  • Piper durirameum C.DC.
  • Piper fistulosum C.DC.
  • Piper fuscescens C.DC.
  • Piper jamesonii C.DC.
  • Piper oblitum Trel.
  • Schilleria barbata (Kunth) Kunth

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. 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.

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