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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:
  • SubTribe:

Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
YearJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013

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):

  1. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Tuesday, February 07, 2017.
  2. Piper cenocladum at Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Last accessed on Tuesday, February 07, 2017.
  3. 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.
  4. Ants Live in Pepper Plant Restaurants at Morning Earth. Last accessed on Wednesday, July 19, 2017.
  5. Image #00 (cropped) and #01 (original) by J. Longino at Morning Earth. Last accessed on Wednesday, July 19, 2017.

data regenerated on Wed, 05 Mar 2025 15:48:04 -0500 [bcm v4.0]

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Piper cenocladum

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Subfamily Piperoideae

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  • Piper cenocladum
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W/C = Wild Collected
= indicates flowering in past 14 days
= images available for this accession
= map available for this accession
= accession added within past 90 days
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