Understory shrub; can reach heights of 2m.
Has prop roots.
Piper pseudobumbratum has a similar growth from and stature to Piper auritum. For more infomation see attached pdf (Greig and Mauseth, 1991).
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=6 herbivore associations as of 2012.
Geometridae: Eois sp. 14; N=3.
Hesperiidae: Quadrus cerialis (Stoll); N=2.
Noctuidae: Unknown sp.; N=1.
Larval lepidopteran herbivores reared in Heredia Province, Costa Rica (La Selva Biological Station).
For Piper phylogeny see attached pdf (Jaramillo et al., 2008).
For original publication details on Piper pseudobumbratum see: Primitiae Florae Costaricensis 2(3): 270. 1899.
P. pseudobumbratum is endemic to Costa Rica.
This information was accessed through Discover Life, Tropicos and the Global Biodiversity Information Portal.
Larval lepidopteran herbivores collected from P. pseudobumbratum in Heredia Province, Costa Rica (La Selva Biological Station, Tirimbina).
Known to grow in dense primary forest and small gaps (Greig and Mauseth, 1991).
Piper pseudobumbratum C.DC.