Accession Data:
Piper cenocladum C. DC.
- Common Name: Ant Piper
- Family: Piperaceae Agardh.
- Country of Origin: Costa Rica and surrounding countries
- Habitat: wet forests in Atlantic lowlands
- Description: This ant piper has hollow petioles which provide a home for ants, especially of the species Pheidole bicornis.
Accession Data:
- Accession # 200800003
- Source:
- Provenance: older accession, mislabeled, no accession number. Identity confirmed by Felix Coe, 25JAN08. New accession number assigned. 28JAN08
- Accession Date: 01-28-2008
- Bench: 1303 - NEOA: Ground Bed 1 NE
- Currently: active - healthy
- Qty: 2 confirmed on 01-22-2025
Classification:
- Division: Magnoliophyta
- Class: Magnoliopsida
- SubClass: magnoliids
- Order: Piperales
- SubOrder:
- Family: Piperaceae
- SubFamily: Piperoideae
- Tribe:
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Flowering Data:
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References (internal):
- Ant Plants (myrmecophytes)
- EEB 3271 - Systematic Botany
- AntU - Learning from the Complex Society of Army Ants & Their Guests
- Plants used in EEB 2244 - General Ecology
- Accessions with Embedded Video Files
- EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: Costa Rica / Nicaragua / Panama
References (external):
- The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Tuesday, February 07, 2017.
- Piper cenocladum at Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Last accessed on Tuesday, February 07, 2017.
- Risch, Stephen, et al. "Mutualism between Three Species of Tropical Piper (Piperaceae) and Their Ant Inhabitants.” The American Midland Naturalist, vol. 98, no. 2, 1977, pp. 433–444. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2424991. Last accessed on Wednesday, July 19, 2017.
- Ants Live in Pepper Plant Restaurants at Morning Earth. Last accessed on Wednesday, July 19, 2017.
- Image #00 (cropped) and #01 (original) by J. Longino at Morning Earth. Last accessed on Wednesday, July 19, 2017.
data regenerated on Sat, 17 May 2025 12:36:06 -0400 [bcm v4.0]
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