Herbaceous understory shrub that can reach heights of 0.5m.
Inflorescences are white and erect.
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 a Costa Rican tropical wet forest.
N=1 herbivore association as of 2012.
Geometridae: Eois nov. sp.; N=1.
Larval lepidopteran herbivore reared in Heredia Province, Costa Rica (La Selva Biological Station).
For Piper phylogeny see attached pdf (Jaramillo et al., 2008).
For original publication details of Piper nudifolium see: Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belgique 30(1): 205 205 1891.
Piper nudifolium is distributed from Costa Rica to Northwestern Columbia.
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Larval lepidopteran herbivore collected from P. nudifolium in Heredia Province, Costa Rica (Tirimbina).
A number of synonyms of the accepted name, Piper nudifolium C.DC. have been acknowledged by The Plant List.