Understory shrub; can reach heights of 1.3m.
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=34 herbivore association as of 2012.
Crambidae: Unknown sp.; N=1.
Geometridae: Eois apyraria (Guenee); N=4, Eois numida (Druce); N=1, Eois russearia (Hubner); N=27.
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 of Piper sanct-felicis see: Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 26(2): 35 35 1927.
P. sancti-felicis is found in southern Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Belize, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Columbia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia.
This distribution information was accessed through the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Herbarium and Tropicos.
Larval lepidopteran herbivores collected from P. sanct-felicis in Heredia Province, Costa Rica (La Selva Biological Station).
A number of synonyms for the accepeted name, Piper sancti-felicis Trel. have been acknowledged by The Plant List.