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Piper hispidum (Jamaican pepper)

Synonyms:

Infraspecies

Piper hispidum f. lanceolatum
Piper hispidum f. patulipilum
Piper hispidum f. surinamense

Attributes

Leaf Type [1]  Evergreen
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Structure [1]  Shrub

Protected Areas

Predators

Artibeus jamaicensis (Jamaican fruit-eating bat)[3]
Carollia perspicillata (Seba's short-tailed bat)[4]
Consul fabius (Tailed mimic butterfly)[5]
Habia fuscicauda (Red-throated Ant-Tanager)[6]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 2USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 3Artibeus jamaicensis, Jorge Ortega and Iván Castro-Arellano, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 662, pp. 1–9 (2001)
♦ 4The diet of fruit-eating bats (Mammalia, Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae) in a small Semideciduous Seasonal Forest remnant in south Brazil, Sandra Bos Mikich, Rev. Bras. Zool. vol.19 no.1 Curitiba Mar. 2002
♦ 5HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 6Dieta y dispersión de semillas por dos especies de Tangara (Habia) en dos tipos de vegetación en los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, México, Fernando Puebla-Olivares & Kevin Winker, ORNITOLOGIA NEOTROPICAL 15: 53–64, 2004
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0