Piper auritum (Piperaceae)
Presented here is information about a herbarium specimen (voucher) of Piper auritum (Piperaceae) from Pohnpei Island (Pohnpei Islands/Federated States of Micronesia/Pacific region). For further information, contact webmaster@hear.org.
| Voucher number: | BISH687692 |
| Herbarium (or collector): | Bernice P. Bishop Museum |
| Taxon name on voucher: | Piper auritum Kunth |
| Represents which PIER taxon: | Piper auritum (Piperaceae) |
| Local name: | n/a |
| Info current as of: | 01 October 2003 |
| PIER comments: | n/a |
| Local name language: | n/a |
| Deteriminer: | B.M.Waterhouse |
| Determination date: | n/a |
| Determination institution: | Bernice P. Bishop Museum (BISH) |
| Region: | Micronesia |
| Country: | Micronesia |
| Island group: | n/a |
| Island: | Pohnpei |
| State/province: | n/a |
| Town/city: | n/a |
| Locality: | Municipality of U., Tuhei village. |
| PIER location: | Pohnpei Island (Pohnpei Islands/Federated States of Micronesia/Pacific region) |
| Habitat: | Shaded sites on moist rocky hillslopes. |
| Elevation (lo/hi): | (n/a) |
| Coordinates: | |
| LAT/LON method: | Label |
| PLDesc: | Robust shrub to 3 m tall with multiple, erect stems arising from a rhizome. Pale stilt roots at base. Stems conspicuously jointed- internodes 30 cm. long. Leaves dark green above, paler beneath with distinctive asymmertrically (auriculately) cordate base |
| Collector: | Waterhouse, B.M. |
| Collection team: | n/a |
| CollNumber: | BMW5781 |
| Collection date(s): | 29.iii.2000 |
| Voucher comment: | Recently introduced to island (? 12 months ago) and now invasive. Grows much more vigorously and rapidly than Piper Methysticum, a principal local crop. Fear that it will become a major environmental weed. Eradication program planned. A potential weed for |
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