Piper interruptum Opiz

Gardner, R. O., 2013, Piper (Piperaceae) in New Guinea: the climbing species, Blumea 57 (3), pp. 275-294 : 284

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scientific name	Piper interruptum Opiz
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10. Piper interruptum Opiz View in CoL

Piper interruptum Opiz (1828) View in CoL 157;Quisumb.(1930) 154,pl.21; R.O. Gardner (2006) 581; Spokes (2007) 237; R.O. Gardner (2010) 11. — Type: Haenke s.n. (holo PR n.v), Luzon.

Distribution — Taiwan, Philippine Is., New Guinea, Solomon

Is., and possibly Vanuatu ( Gardner 2006: 582); also Australia. Habitat & Ecology — In forest, to c. 700(–1300) m altitude.

Notes — Two specimens have the anomalously high altitude of c. 1300 m: Carr 13458, Central Province, Boridi; NGF 29214, Eastern Highlands Province, Kassam Pass .

The leaves of New Guinean and Solomons specimens have a palmate-pinnate nervation, in contrast to the usual strictly palmate (basally nerved) condition in plants from the Philippines ( Gardner 2006).

The taxon described under this name by Van Royen (1982) is P. bolanicum Schltr. ex R.O.Gardner , a montane shrub.