Piper bredemeyeriJ.Jacq.

WFO wfo-0000479579 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Piper bredemeyeri, photographed by Arthur de Jesús Chavarría Pérez
fig. a Arthur de Jesús Chavarría Pérez, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-10-30 / obs. 102520453
Piper bredemeyeri, photographed by Arthur de Jesús Chavarría Pérez
fig. b Arthur de Jesús Chavarría Pérez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 102520493
Piper bredemeyeri, photographed by Arthur de Jesús Chavarría Pérez
fig. c Arthur de Jesús Chavarría Pérez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 102520541
Piper bredemeyeri, photographed by Arthur de Jesús Chavarría Pérez
fig. d Arthur de Jesús Chavarría Pérez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 102520588
Piper bredemeyeri, photographed by Arthur de Jesús Chavarría Pérez
fig. e Arthur de Jesús Chavarría Pérez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 102520630
Piper bredemeyeri, photographed by Arthur de Jesús Chavarría Pérez
fig. f Arthur de Jesús Chavarría Pérez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 102520659
Piper bredemeyeri, photographed by Eduardo Chacón Madrigal
fig. g Eduardo Chacón Madrigal, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 87898015
Piper bredemeyeri, photographed by Eduardo Chacón Madrigal
fig. h Eduardo Chacón Madrigal, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 87898110

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Native range 9 botanical countries

Regions where Piper bredemeyeri is native: Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panamá, Venezuela ColombiaCosta RicaEcuadorEl SalvadorGuatemalaHondurasNicaraguaPanamáVenezuela
Native distribution of Piper bredemeyeri, 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
Costa Rica COS
Ecuador ECU
El Salvador ELS
Guatemala GUA
Honduras HON
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
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 13 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 bredemeyeri (J.Jacq.) Miq.
  • Artanthe flexuosa (Kunth) Miq.
  • Artanthe radula (Kunth) Miq.
  • Piper alveolatifolium Trel.
  • Piper bredemeyeri f. escabridum Steyerm.
  • Piper bredemeyeri var. angustifolium Trel. & Yunck.
  • Piper bredemeyeri var. flexuosum (Jacq.) Trel. & Yunck.
  • Piper flexuosum J.Jacq.
  • Piper pseudopsis C.DC.
  • Piper radula Kunth
  • Piper villibracteum C.DC.
  • Steffensia flexuosa Kunth
  • Steffensia radula (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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