Piper umbellatumL.

WFO wfo-0000487600 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Piper umbellatum, photographed by Cajá-manga
fig. a Cajá-manga, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-01 / obs. 195228161
Piper umbellatum, photographed by 謝麗霦
fig. b 謝麗霦, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 179235362
Piper umbellatum, photographed by T R Shankar Raman
fig. c T R Shankar Raman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 178285281
Piper umbellatum, photographed by Andrés Ramírez-Barrera
fig. d Andrés Ramírez-Barrera, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 144767804
Piper umbellatum, photographed by Ronald Péret
fig. e Ronald Péret, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 110664436
Piper umbellatum, photographed by Jake Rehage
fig. f Jake Rehage, CC0 1.0 / obs. 105928583
Piper umbellatum, photographed by Arthur de Jesús Chavarría Pérez
fig. g Arthur de Jesús Chavarría Pérez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 105608377
Piper umbellatum, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. h Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 104611686

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Native range 30 botanical countries

Regions where Piper umbellatum is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Puerto Rico, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Windward Is. Mexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestBelizeBoliviaBrazil NorthBrazil NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralColombiaCosta RicaCubaDominican RepublicEcuadorEl SalvadorGuatemalaHaitiHondurasJamaicaNicaraguaPanamáPeruPuerto RicoTrinidad-TobagoVenezuela Leeward Is.Windward Is.
Native distribution of Piper umbellatum, 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
Belize BLZ SOUTHERN AMERICA
Bolivia BOL
Brazil North BZN
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Cuba CUB
Dominican Republic DOM
Ecuador ECU
El Salvador ELS
Guatemala GUA
Haiti HAI
Honduras HON
Jamaica JAM
Leeward Is. LEE
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Peru PER
Puerto Rico PUE
Trinidad-Tobago TRT
Venezuela VEN
Windward Is. WIN
Mexico Central MXC NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
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 41 in flower of 68 examined

Peak flowering in Jul. Each bar is the share of Piper umbellatum 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. 41 of 68 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 3 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 39 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.

  • Heckeria sidifolia Kunth
  • Heckeria subpeltata Kunth
  • Heckeria umbellata (L.) Kunth
  • Lepianthes umbellata (L.) Raf. ex Ramamoorthy
  • Peperidia afzeliana Kostel.
  • Peperidia sidifolia Kostel.
  • Peperidia subpeltata Kostel.
  • Peperidia umbellata (L.) Kostel.
  • Peperomia grandifolia A.Dietr.
  • Peperomia reniformis (Poir.) A.Dietr.
  • Peperomia sidifolia (Link & Otto) A.Dietr.
  • Peperomia subpeltata A.Dietr.
  • Peperomia umbellata (L.) Kunth
  • Piper afzelianum Schult.
  • Piper cuernavacanum C.DC.
  • Piper dombeyanum C.DC.
  • Piper grandifolium Afzel.
  • Piper latifolium Lam.
  • Piper reniforme Poir.
  • Piper sidifolium Link & Otto
  • Piper subpeltatum Willd.
  • Piper subpeltatum var. parvifolium C.DC.
  • Piper subpeltatum var. sidifolium (Link & Otto) C.DC.
  • Piper umbellatum var. geminatum C.DC.

and 15 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.

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