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Piper umbellatum

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Name

Identification
Piper umbellatum L. [family PIPERACEAE ]
Related name
  • Piper umbellatum
Common name
  • kumandaye-bulu (FB) (GUINEA, MANDING-MANINKA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • labalaba (JMD; FB) (GUINEA, SUSU), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • L (SIERRA LEONE, FULA-PULAAR (Sierra), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • gufgafa (Jacques-Felix) (GUINEA, FULA-PULAAR (Guinea)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • péménema (FB) (GUINEA, KPELLE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • (Sherbro) pσpσnda-lε (FCD) (SIERRA LEONE, BULOM), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • poponedaye (FB) poponidagui (FB) (GUINEA, TOMA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • cow-foot leaf (Sierra Leone)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4

Flora

Entry for Piper umbellatum L. [family PIPERACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1996) Author: BERNARD VERDCOURT
Names
Piper umbellatum L. [family PIPERACEAE], Sp. Pl.: 30 (1753); C. DC. in DC., Prodr. 16(1): 332 (1869); Hiern, Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 1: 911 (1900); Baker & C.H. Wright in F.T.A. 6 (1): 144 (1909); Balle in B.J.B.B: 16: 369 (1942) & in F.C.B. 1: 16 (1948); F.P.N.A. 1: 27 (1948); T.T.C.L.: 451 (1949); F.P.S. 1: 23, fig. 19 (1950); F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 1: 84, fig. 25 (1954); Haerdi in Acta Trop., Suppl. 8: 158 (1964); Fl. Rwanda 1: 284 (1978); S.A. Robertson, Fl. Pl. Seych.: 195 (1989); Blundell, Wild Fl. E. Afr., reprint: 22 (1992); U.K.W.F., ed. 2: 48, t. 4 (1994); K.T.S.L.: 66 (1994). Type: Santo Domingo (Hispaniola, probably Haitian side); Plumier, Descr. Pl. Amér.: 53, t. 73 (1693) (lecto.!)
Piper subpeltatum Willd. [family PIPERACEAE], Sp. Pl. 1: 166 (1797); P.O.A. C: 159 (1895); F.D.O.-A. 2: 48 (1932). Type: Amboina, Lomba; Rumphius, Herb. Amb. 6: 133, t. 59/1 (1750)
Lepianthes umbellatum (L.) Raf. [family PIPERACEAE], Sylva Tel.: 85 (1838)
Heckeria umbellata (L.) Kunth [family ], in Linnaea 13: 569 (1840)
Heckeria subpeltata (Willd.) Kunth [family ], in Linnaea 13: 571 (1840)
Pothomorphe umbellata (L.) Miq. [family PIPERACEAE], Comm. Phyt. 36 (1840); C.D. Adams, Fl. Pl. Jamaica: 213 (1972); Steyerm., Fl. Venezuela 2(2), Piperaceae: 602, fig. 95 (1984)
Pothomorphe subpeltata (Willd.) Miq. [family PIPERACEAE], Comm. Phyt.: 37 (1840)
Information
Shrub or woody herb 0.9–4 m. tall, with many subsucculent stems forming a dense clump from a woody rootstock; stems scrambling, thick, glabrous, with adventitious roots. Leaves dark green above, greyish beneath, almost circular to oblate or reniform, 5–36(–40) cm. long, 4.6–37(–42) cm. wide, shortly acuminate to rounded at the apex, deeply cordate at the base, fairly thin, ± glandular punctate, sparsely to densely pubescent on the nerves above and beneath and also on the conspicuously reticulate venation beneath; nerves 11–13(–15), palmate; petiole 6.5–30(–33) cm. long, dilated and sheathing basally. Flowers hermaphrodite; spikes white, whitish grey, greenish or cream to yellow, 2–8 arranged in false umbels on reduced leafless shoots, (3–)4–12 cm. long, 1.5–3 mm. wide, glabrous; peduncles 0.4–1.7 cm. long; peduncular bracts white, narrow, 6–8 mm. long, deciduous; floralbracts triangular to ± round, 0.5–0.8 mm. wide, subpeltate, white-fimbriate at margins. Stamens 2. Stigmas 3. Fruits brownish, obpyramidal, 3-angled, 0.6–0.8 mm. long, 0.4–0.6 mm. wide.
Range
DISTR. U 2–4; K 1, 3 ( fide K.T.S.L.), 4, 5; T 2–4, 6, 7; Z (see note) Guinea Bissau to Angola, Zaire, São Tomé, Bioko, S. Sudan, Mozambique, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Seychelles, Madagascar, Mascarene Is.; pantropical
Altitude range
(0–)150–1800(–2100 fide K.T.S.L.) m.
Distribution
UGANDA Ankole District Bunyaruguru, July 1939, Purseglove 839!;KENYA Meru District point where Thangatha R. is cut by the south circular road to Maua round the Nyambeni Hills, Stone Bridge, 10 Oct. 1960, Polhill & Verdcourt 280! & Meru, 21 Feb. 1922, R.E. & T.C.E. Fries 1816!;TANZANIA Tanga District E. Usambara Mts., Mlinga Peak, 7 Mar. 1953, Drummond & Hemsley 1453!;UGANDA Mbale District banks of Siroko R., Jan. 1932, Chandler 409!;UGANDA Masaka District Kyotera, Nov. 1945, Purseglove 1868!KENYA N. Kavirondo District Kakamega Forest, near crossing of Ikuywa R., 8.3 km. ESE. of Kisieni, 6 Jan. 1968, Perdue & Kibuwa 9477!TANZANIA Morogoro District Uluguru Mts., Bunduki, 28 Mar. 1969, Batty 425!;TANZANIA Kilosa District Ukaguru Mts., Mnyera, 31 Jan. 1976, Cribb et al. 10500!;TANZANIA Iringa District Kidatu, 3 Mar. 1971, Mhoro 635!
Notes
The only coastal record I have seen is from Zanzibar, Panga Juu, 10 Jan. 1930, Vaughan 1343, and there seems no doubt about it but it is not mentioned in U.O.P.Z. and confirmation is needed, Steyermark maintains forma umbellata and forma glabra (C. DC.) Steyerm. Several references say originally from America but it certainly appears to be wild in Africa.

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