Plant Details

Accepted name:: Piper aduncum L. [Piperaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Infraspecies:: 3

Piper aduncum var. aduncum

Piper aduncum var. cordulatum (C.DC.) Yunck.

Piper aduncum var. garcia-barrigae Trel. & Yunck.

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
aduncum	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
aperta ruão	Other	Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006)
aperta-joão	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
aperta-ruão	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
bamboo piper	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
cordoncillo	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Med. Pl. in N Peruvian Andes (Corroto et al., 2019) Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021)
falso matico	Other	Med. Pl. Argentine Flora (Barboza et al., 2009)
gaaman udu anu	Other	Med. Pl. Trade in Suriname (van Andel et al., 2007)
hierba del soldado	Other	Med. Pl. Argentine Flora (Barboza et al., 2009)
higuillo	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
jaborandi-do-mato	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
jaborandi-falso	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
matico	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Med. Pl. Argentine Flora (Barboza et al., 2009) Med. Pl. in Loja & Zamora-Chinchipe, Ecuador (Tene et al., 2007) Med. Pl. of Chazuta Valley (Sanz-Biset et al., 2009) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
matico chico	Other	Med. Pl. Argentine Flora (Barboza et al., 2009)
mucu mucu	Other	Med. Pl. Argentine Flora (Barboza et al., 2009)
pimenta-darda	Other	Med. & Pois. Pl. NE Brazil (Agra et al., 2007) Med. Pl. of NE Brazil (Fátima Agra et al., 2008)
pimenta-de-macaco	Other	Med. Pl. of NE Brazil (Fátima Agra et al., 2008)
pimenta-de-nico	Other	Med. Pl. of Carrasco, Brazil (Dias Souza et al., 2014)
pimenta-do-fruto-ganchoso	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
pimenta-e-macaco	Other	Med. & Pois. Pl. NE Brazil (Agra et al., 2007)
platanillo de cuba	Other	Med. Pl. in Ethnobot./Relig. Trads., Cuba (Carlomagno et al., 2015)
spiked pepper	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
Leaf, flower		Med. Pl. in Loja & Zamora-Chinchipe, Ecuador (Tene et al., 2007)
leaves		Med. Pl. Trade in Suriname (van Andel et al., 2007)
leaf, bud, aerial part, látex, bark		Med. Pl. in N Peruvian Andes (Corroto et al., 2019)
leaves	green leaf	Med. Pl. of Carrasco, Brazil (Dias Souza et al., 2014)
leaf	fluid extract	Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006)
leaf		Med. Pl. of Chazuta Valley (Sanz-Biset et al., 2009)
inflorescence		Med. Pl. of NE Brazil (Fátima Agra et al., 2008)
inflorescence		Med. & Pois. Pl. NE Brazil (Agra et al., 2007)
Dried flower + leaf + stem, Leaf		Med. Pl. Argentine Flora (Barboza et al., 2009)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 2 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Artanthe adunca (L.) Miq. Comm. Phytogr.: 49 (1840).
Steffensia adunca (L.) Kunth Linnaea 13: 633 (1840).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Piper aduncum	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015)
Piper aduncum L.	Comm. Med. Pl. Harvesting, Suriname (van Andel & Havinga, 2008) Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Med. & Pois. Pl. NE Brazil (Agra et al., 2007) Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006) Med. Pl. Latin America (Duke, 2009) Med. Pl. Trade in Suriname (van Andel et al., 2007) Med. Pl. for Diabetes in C America (Giovannini et al., 2016) Med. Pl. in Loja & Zamora-Chinchipe, Ecuador (Tene et al., 2007) Med. Pl. in N Peruvian Andes (Corroto et al., 2019) Med. Pl. of Brazil (Mors et al., 2000) Med. Pl. of Chazuta Valley (Sanz-Biset et al., 2009) Med. Pl. of NE Brazil (Fátima Agra et al., 2008) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) SOTWP 2016: Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2015) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Piper aduncum L. var. aduncum	Med. Pl. Argentine Flora (Barboza et al., 2009)
Piper aduncum Lin.	Med. Pl. in Ethnobot./Relig. Trads., Cuba (Carlomagno et al., 2015)
Piper aduncun L	Med. Pl. of Carrasco, Brazil (Dias Souza et al., 2014)

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