Pahari Pipar / Hill Pepper
Piper mullesua
- Habit
- Climbing shrub
- Found in India
- Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh & more
- Flowering
- January-April
How to identify Pahari Pipar
Identify Pahari Pipar by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a climbing shrub habit.
- Check the distinctive field mark: Found in hill forests.
- Confirm leaf surface: Glabrous (smooth, hairless).
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: January-April.
- In India, compare location records such as Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya and nearby regions.
- Confirm it sits within the Piperaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Pahari Pipar.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Piper mullesua
- Genus
- Piper
- Family
- Piperaceae
- Habit
- Climbing shrub
- Habitat
- Evergreen and shola forests
- Habitat type
- Forest
- Distribution
- India
- Found in India
- Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Uttarakhand
- Flowering & fruiting
- January-April
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf surface
- Glabrous (smooth, hairless)recorded
Typical of the family
Characters marked “recorded” are for Pahari Pipar 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
- Pahari Pipar
- Nepali
- पहाडी पान Pahaadee Paan
About Pahari Pipar
A member of the Piperaceae family, Hill Pepper (Piper mullesua) is a climbing shrub. In India it has been recorded in Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh and 4 other states. It grows in evergreen and shola forests. Flowering and fruiting run from January to April.
Piperaceae
Pepper family
Pahari Pipar belongs to the Piperaceae family.
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