Piper elongatum Vahl

The New York Botanical Garden
Piper elongatum Vahl
det: R. Callejas. 1984
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Urubamba, Machu Picchu’, above the Rio Mandor, 4kn from km
114 of the Urubamba railroad, (plot #204]
altitudes 2810m, aspect: W, elope: 77%
Very Humid Subtropical Mt. Forest, characterized by stunted
trees 5m tall and orchids. Upper slope.
Shrub, ht: 3m; dark green asymmetrical Leaf; purple stem with
white pubescence; dirty pale yellow fruit spikes.
B.Peyton, S.Tilney Peyton 1357
25 Sept entier 1982
jnder tne auspices of the riot» of Peru project and the Spectacled Bear Habitat study,
ative effort of the Missouri Botanical Garden and the Field M»*eu» of Natural History in
nth the Universidad San Antonio Abad, the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, and
idad Nacional dc Auzonia Peruana. Field work supported by the New York Zoological Society,
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