Liana that can climb up the trunk of the host plant to heights of 5m or more.
Erect inlorescences are yellow in color.
Plant has an aromatic scent reminescent of lemon or mint.
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=12 herbivore association as of 2012.
Geometridae: Eois sp.; N=11.
Hesperiidae: Quadrus cerialis (Stoll); 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 of Piper xanthostachyum see: Prim. Fl. Costaric. 2(3): 261-262 261 1899.
P. xanthostachyum is found in Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Ecuador and Peru.
This information was accessed through Tropicos and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Herbarium.
Larval lepidopteran herbivores collected from P. xanthostachyum in Heredia Province, Costa Rica (La Selva Biological Station).
A number of synonyms of the accepted name, Piper xanthostachyum C.DC. have been acknowledged by The Plant List.