Piper lanatumRoxb.

WFO wfo-0000485935 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 4 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 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 lanatum, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. a 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / 2021-10-20 / obs. 165234871
Piper lanatum, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. b 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 165597430
Piper lanatum, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. c 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 165544491
Piper lanatum, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. d 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 165546461
Piper lanatum, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. e 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 165597397
Piper lanatum, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. f 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 165544480
Piper lanatum, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. g 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 165546474
Piper lanatum, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. h 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 165234938

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Native range 15 botanical countries

Regions where Piper lanatum is native: Assam, Bangladesh, India, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Is., Sulawesi, Thailand, Queensland, Wallis-Futuna Is. AssamBangladeshIndiaJawaLesser Sunda Is.MalayaMalukuMyanmarNew GuineaPhilippinesSolomon Is.SulawesiThailandQueensland Wallis-Futuna Is.
Native distribution of Piper lanatum, 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
Assam ASS ASIA-TROPICAL
Bangladesh BAN
India IND
Jawa JAW
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Malaya MLY
Maluku MOL
Myanmar MYA
New Guinea NWG
Philippines PHI
Solomon Is. SOL
Sulawesi SUL
Thailand THA
Queensland QLD AUSTRALASIA
Wallis-Futuna Is. WAL PACIFIC

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 44 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.

  • Chavica haenkeana C.Presl
  • Chavica viminalis Miq.
  • Cubeba canina (Blume) Miq.
  • Cubeba lanata Miq.
  • Cubeba lowong (Blume) Miq.
  • Peperomia lanata A.Dietr.
  • Piper acutibaccum C.DC.
  • Piper apoanum C.DC.
  • Piper arborescens Thwaites
  • Piper arborisedens C.DC.
  • Piper banksii Miq.
  • Piper basilanum C.DC.
  • Piper boerlagei C.DC.
  • Piper bombycatum Noronha
  • Piper bonthainense C.DC.
  • Piper cabadbaranum C.DC.
  • Piper caninum Blume
  • Piper caninum var. latibracteum C.DC.
  • Piper caninum var. thwaitesii (C.DC.) Hook.f.
  • Piper dagatpanum C.DC.
  • Piper densibaccum C.DC.
  • Piper gelalae C.DC.
  • Piper haenkeanum Opiz
  • Piper hallieri C.DC.

and 20 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. 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.