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|accepted_name=Piper
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 28. 175
}}, {{Treatment/Publication
|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-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Small </b>trees, shrubs, subshrubs, or rarely herbs, erect or reclining, glabrous or pubescent. <b>Leaves</b> alternate, pubescent. <b>Leaf</b> blade conspicuously pinnately veined, lateral veins ascending-arching, connected by fainter, ladderlike, tertiary veins. <b>Spikes</b> opposite leaves, ascending-arching, densely flowered, distally drooping. <b>Flowers</b> sessile, borne on surface of rachis; floral bracts fringed with whitish hairs; stamens 2[-6]; stigmas [2-]3[-4]. <b>Fruits</b> sessile, oblong (inversely pyramidal-3-angled in <i>P. auritum</i>); 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 <i>Piper</i> 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
|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
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