Piper auritum

TaxID: 130385

Basic Information

Piper auritum

Mexican pepperleaf, Vera Cruz Pepper

Piper auritum is an aromatic culinary herb in the pepper family Piperaceae, which grows in and is endemic to tropical Central America. Common names include hoja santa (Spanish for 'sacred leaf'), yerba santa, hierba santa, Mexican pepperleaf, acuyo, tlanepa, anisillo, root beer plant, Vera Cruz pepper, sacred pepper, and juniapa.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Streptophyta

Magnoliopsida

Piperales

Piperaceae

Piper

auritum

Unclassified

Photos (5 photos)

Piper auritum
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(c) Juan Cruzado Cortés@BY-SA
Piper auritum
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(c) bernzpa@BY-NC
Piper auritum
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(c) Andy@BY-NC
Piper auritum
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(c) E. Tadeo Hernández Almanza@BY-NC
Piper auritum
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(c) Jordan Golubov@BY-NC

Morphological Features

No morphological description available.

Host Plants (0 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

No host plants available.

Quarantine Status (1 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
French Polynesia Absent —

Distribution (25 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

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Present
0
Absent
0
Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Australia Present —
Belize Present —
Brazil Present —
China Present —
Cook Islands Present —
Colombia Present —
Costa Rica Present —
Cuba Present —
Ecuador Present —
France Present —
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Distribution Map (Latitude and longitude coordinates sourced from GBIF.)

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Genomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No genome records available.

Transcriptomes (1 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Run ID Tissue Developmental Stage Sex Read Count Location Actions
ERR2040142 - - - 7590965 -

DNA Barcodes (25 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

Process ID BIN Marker Length Country Date Lat/Lon Sequence
MHPAD443-08 - rbcLa 531 Costa Rica 2008-10-30 10.927, -85.468
MHPAD443-08 - ITS2 397 Costa Rica 2008-10-30 10.927, -85.468
MHPAD442-08 - matK 491 Costa Rica 2008-10-30 10.927, -85.468
MHPAD442-08 - ITS2 397 Costa Rica 2008-10-30 10.927, -85.468
MHPAD441-08 - rbcLa 512 Costa Rica 2008-10-30 10.927, -85.468
MHPAD441-08 - ITS2 397 Costa Rica 2008-10-30 10.927, -85.468
MHPAD2847-10 - rbcLa 552 Costa Rica 2009-12-15 10.77, -85.285
MHPAD2847-10 - matK 724 Costa Rica 2009-12-15 10.77, -85.285
MHPAD2847-10 - ITS2 397 Costa Rica 2009-12-15 10.77, -85.285
MHPAD2846-10 - matK 734 Costa Rica 2009-12-15 10.77, -85.285
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Literature