Piper caninum

Piper caninum Blume (1826) . 

Zich et al. (2020) Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants information system (RFK ed. 8), 
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Distribution and Ecology

Occurs in Cape York Peninsula, the wet tropics bio-region NE. Qld, central eastern Qld. and southwards to south-eastern Qld. 
Altitudinal range from near sea level to 1100 m.
Grows in lowland and upland rain forest.
Also found in SE Asia and Malesia.

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Botanical Scholarly Literature References:  

Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) and Australian Plant Census (APC) (2024):
Council of the Heads of Australasian Herbaria (CHAH):
Piper caninum Blume (1826): → https://id.biodiversity.org.au/name/apni/80619/api/apni-format  .
Viewed: 2025 September 15th .

• Zich Frank A., Bernie P. M. Hyland, Trevor Whiffin, Raelee A. Kerrigan (2020) 
Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants information system and botanical matrix identification key - edition 8 ('RFK 8'): 
Piper caninum Blume fact sheet: → https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/entities/Piper_caninum.htm 
Main site web page: → https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/.
Viewed: 2025 September 15th.

• Bean, Anthony R. (2025) 
Census of the Queensland Flora and Fungi 2024. 
Piper caninum Blume – "Nature Conservation Act (NCA) Status : Least Concern" .
Queensland Department of Environment, Science and Innovation, Queensland Government. 
→ http://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/census-of-the-queensland-flora-and-fungi-2024 
Dataset Accessed: 2025 July 19th .  

• Cooper, Wendy and William T (2004 June) 
Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest.
—pages: 398 (–399) .
Clifton Hill, Victoria, Australia: Nokomis Editions. ISBN 9780958174213 .

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