Tree that can reach heights of 8m.
The leaves have a rough texture and are heart-shaped.
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=22 herbivore associations as of 2012.
Geometridae: Eois fucosa (Dognin); N=2, Eois nr. pallidicosta (Warren); N=14, Eois nov sp.; N=20.
Larval lepidopteran herbivores reared in Napo Province, Ecuador (Yanayacu Biological Station and Center for Creative Studies).
For Piper phylogeny see attached pdf (Jaramillo et al., 2008).
For original publication details of Piper perareolatum see: Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 40: 246 246 1908.
P. perareolatum is found in Ecuador and Peru.
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1850m-2400m (based on CAPEA rearings).
Larval lepidopteran herbivores collected from P. perareolatum located in several locations in Napo Province, Ecuador (Yanayacu Biological Station and Center for Creative Studies, Isla de Las Palmas, Miraflores)
Piper perareolatum C.DC. is an accepted name. This information was accessed through The Plant List.