Pipli / Long Pepper
Piper longum
Also known as Indian Long Pepper
- Habit
- Undershrub
- Found in India
- Kerala, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh & more
- Flowering
- August-January
How to identify Pipli
Identify Pipli by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a undershrub habit.
- Check the distinctive field mark: Long slender cylindrical fruit spike (long pepper).
- Confirm leaf surface: Pubescent (softly hairy).
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: August-January.
- In India, compare location records such as Kerala, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and nearby regions.
- Confirm it sits within the Piperaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Pipli.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Piper longum
- Genus
- Piper
- Family
- Piperaceae
- Habit
- Undershrub
- Habitat
- Semi-evergreen and evergreen and moist deciduous forests
- Habitat type
- Forest
- Distribution
- Indo-Malesia, Malacca Islands
- Found in India
- Kerala, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Sikkim, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Meghalaya, Puducherry
- Flowering & fruiting
- August-January
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf surface
- Pubescent (softly hairy)recorded
Typical of the family
Characters marked “recorded” are for Pipli itself; the rest are typical of the Piperaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Spike
- Fruit
- Drupe
Typical of the Piperaceae family — flowering plants only; individual species can differ.
Local Names
- Hindi
- पिपली Pipli,पिप्पली pippali
- Nepali
- पिप्ला Piplaa, गज पिप्ला Gaj Piplaa, पिपला
- Bengali
- পিপুল
- Tamil
- திப்பிலீ Tippili, திப்பிலி
- Telugu
- Pippallu, పిప్పలి
- Kannada
- ಹಿಪ್ಪಲಿ Hippali, ತಿಪ್ಪಲಿ Tippali, ಹಿಪ್ಪಲಿ
- Malayalam
- തിപ്പലീ Tippali, തിപ്പലി
- Marathi
- लेंडपिंपळी Lendpimpali, पिंपळी Pimpli, पिंपळी
About Pipli
Long Pepper (Piper longum) is a low shrub in the Piperaceae family. In India it has been recorded in Kerala, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh and 13 other states. It grows in semi-evergreen and evergreen and moist deciduous forests. Flowering and fruiting run from August to January.
Uses
It is grown for parts that are eaten.
Piperaceae
Pepper family
Pipli belongs to the Piperaceae family.
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