Piper garagaranum
Small Shrub. Can reach heights of 0.6m.
Inflorescences are green.
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.
Hesperiidae: Quadrus cerialis (Stoll); N=4.
Nymphalidae: Consul fabius cecrops (Doubleday); N=2, Memphis 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 of Piper garagaranum see: Smithsonian Misc. Collect. 71(6): 15 15 1920.
P. garagaranum is distributed from Nicaragua to Columbia.
Distribution data accessed through the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institue Herbarium.
Larval lepidopteran herbivores collected from P. garagaranum in Heredia Province, Costa Rica (La Selva Biological Station).
A number of synonyms for the accepted name, Piper garagaranum C.DC. have been acknowledged by The Plant List.