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Piper guineense

Botanic Family

Piperaceae

Author

Schumacher & Thonning

Common Names

• Guinea Cubeb
• Ashanti Pepper
• Benin Pepper
• Mombolou (Bambindjere)
• Mpilili-manga (Kiswahili)
• Beka (Andiri)
• Mbeka (Nduye)
• Abeka (Teturi
• Mawambo)
• Kechu (Swahili)

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Congo
• Equatorial Guinea
• Gabon
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Ivory Coast
• Madagascar
• Nigeria
• Sierra Leone
• St Thomas Island
• Tanzania
• Uganda & Zaire

Natural Habitats

• Secondary forest
• riverside.

Flowering Times

• Feb
• Apr
• Jun
• Oct

Fruiting Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Oct
• Nov

Herbaceous to woody root climbing glabrous liana with nearly glabrous leaves 125mm x 75mm, axillary spikes with bracts, yellow flowers & 4.5mm orange-red mucronate fruit to 40mm diameter

Further References

• Huxley 1992
• Mobot
• FCP
• net
• The Plant List 2
• FOTA