Can reach heights of 1.6m.
Have transparent, gelatinous textured latex; latex is amber in color. Lack enclosed petioles. Stem not hollow.
Ovate leaves.
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=41 herbivore assocations as of 2012.
Apatelodidae: Zanola sp.; N=1.
Geometridae: Eois olivacea (Felder & Rogenhofer); N=7, Eois nr. necula (Druce); N=1, Eois nr. fucosa (Dognin); N=9, Eois nov. spp.; N=16.
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).
Piper stiliferum is found in Ecuador and Peru.
This information was accessed through the Global Biodiversity Information Portal and ZipcodeZoo.
1000m-1500m (based on CAPEA rearings).
Larval lepidopteran herbivores collected from P. stiliferum located in Napo Province, Ecuador (Narupa -Loreto Road, Road to Tena, Ollin-Sumaco), Succumbios Province, Ecuador (Cascada de San Rafeal) and Pastaza/Orellana Provinces (Shiripuno Lodge).
Piper stiliferum Yunck. is an accepted name. This information was accessed through The Plant List.