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|accepted_name=Piper
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 28. 175
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|title=Gen. Pl. ed.
|place=5, 18. 1754
|year=1754
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|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Piperaceae;Piper
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Piperaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Piper]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 3
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="tree size;subshrub orientation;subshrub orientation;subshrub pubescence;subshrub pubescence"><b>Small </b>trees, shrubs, subshrubs, or rarely herbs, erect or reclining, glabrous or pubescent.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="leaf arrangement;leaf pubescence"><b>Leaves </b>alternate, pubescent.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="leaf-blade architecture;lateral-vein orientation;lateral-vein fusion;lateral-vein shape"><b>Leaf-</b>blade conspicuously pinnately veined, lateral-veins ascending-arching, connected by fainter, ladderlike, tertiary-veins.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="spike orientation;spike architecture;spike orientation;leaf arrangement"><b>Spikes </b>opposite leaves, ascending-arching, densely flowered, distally drooping.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="flower architecture"><b>Flowers </b>sessile, borne on surface of rachis;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="floral beak shape;hair coloration">floral bracts fringed with whitish hairs;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="stamen atypical quantity;stamen quantity">stamens 2 [-6];</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="stigma atypical quantity;stigma atypical quantity;stigma quantity">stigmas [2-] 3 [-4].</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="fruit architecture;fruit shape"><b>Fruits </b>sessile, oblong (inversely pyramidal-3-angled in P. auritum);</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="beak size">beak minute.</span><!--

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|distribution=Primarily tropics and subtropics
|discussion=<p>Species 1000 (2 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>This genus includes Piper nigrum Linnaeus, the source of black pepper and white pepper.</p><!--
--><p>Measurements for spike length in all descriptions include the peduncle.</p>
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaf blade obliquely rounded to obliquely cuneate at base; petiole not winged.
|[[Piper aduncum|Piper aduncum]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaf blade narrowly and deeply obliquely cordate at base; petiole winged at base.
|[[Piper auritum|Piper auritum]]
|}
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name=Piper
|author=
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Piperaceae
|distribution=Primarily tropics and subtropics
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.;Gen. Pl. ed.
|publication year=;1754
|special status=
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|genus=Piper
|beak size=minute
|floral beak shape=fringed
|flower architecture=sessile
|fruit architecture=sessile
|fruit shape=oblong
|hair coloration=whitish
|lateral-vein fusion=connected
|lateral-vein orientation=ascending-arching
|lateral-vein shape=ladderlike
|leaf arrangement=opposite;alternate
|leaf pubescence=pubescent
|leaf-blade architecture=veined
|spike architecture=flowered
|spike orientation=drooping;ascending-arching
|stamen atypical quantity=2;6
|stamen quantity=2
|stigma atypical quantity=3;4
|stigma quantity=3
|subshrub orientation=reclining;erect
|subshrub pubescence=pubescent;glabrous
|tree size=small
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