Piper crassinervium
Can grow up to 120 cm tall.
Leaf color ranges from dull green to bright green.
Leaves are thick, have parallel venation and are soft to the touch.
Prenylated Hydroquinones:
- 1,4-dihydroxy-2-(3′,7′-dimethyl-1′-oxo-2′-E,6′-octadienyl)benzene (1)
- 1,4-dihydroxy-2-(3′,7′-dimethyl-1′-oxo-2′-Z,6′-octadienyl)benzene (1)
- 1,4-dihydroxy-2-(7′-methyl-3′-methylene-1′-oxo-4′,7′-peroxide-octyl)benzene (1)
Flavanones:
- naringenin (2)
- sakuranetin (2)
1) Danelutte A. P., Lago J. H., Young M. C., Kato M. J. (2003) Antifungal flavanones and prenylated hydroquinones from Piper crassinervium, Phytochemistry. 24(6): 555-559.
2) Lopes A.A., López S.N., Regasini L.O., Junior J.M., Ambrósio D.L., Kato M.J., da Silva Bolzani V., Cicarelli R.M., Furlan M. (2008) In vitro activity if compounds isolated from Piper crassinervium against trypanosoma, Natural Product Research, 22(12): 1040-1046.
This information is based an ongoing project dedicated to the inventory and dissemination of information on lepidopteran larvae, their host plants, and their parasitoids in an Ecuadorian montane cloud forest.
N=92 herbovire associations as of 2012.
Geometridae: Eois encina complex (Dognin); N=47, Eois fucosa (Dognin); N=1, Eois olivacea (Felder & Rogenhofer); N=16.
Larval lepidopteran herbivores reared in Napo Province, Ecuador (Yanayacu Biological Station and Center for Creative Studies).
For evolutionary relationship between Piper host plants and the specialist caterpillar Eois, see attached pdf (Wilson et al., 2012).
For Piper phylogeny see attached pdf (Jaramillo et al., 2008).
For original publication details of Piper crassinervium see: Nov. Gen. Sp. 1: 48 1816.
Piper crassinervium is found in Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Ecuador, Columbia, Venezuela, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil.
This information was accessed through the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institue Herbarium.
1200m (Tena-Loreto Road bifurcation) - 2100m (Cordillera de Guacomayos).
This information is based on CAPEA rearings and plants samplings.
Larval lepidopteran herbivores collected from P. crassinervium located in Napo Province, Ecuador (Yanayacu Biological Station and Center for Creative Studies) and Succumbios Province, Ecuador (Cascada de San Rafeal).
A number of synonyms for the accepted name, Piper crassinervium Kunth have been acknowledged by The Plant List and under review by the World Checklist of Selcted Plant Families.