Piper baezanum
Piper baezanum
Diagnostic description:Sub-tree that can reach heights of 4m.
Typically has spade-shaped leaves with a "scrotum-like" texture.
Herbivores: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= 3665 herbivore associations as of 2012.
Crambidae: Protepicorsia ectoxanthia (Hampson); N=1.
Erebidae: Saurita mosca (Dognin); N=1, Halysidota atra (Druce); N=2.
Geometridae: Eois auruda (Dognin); N=688, Eois beebei (Fletcher); N=1, Eois cancellata (Warren); N=5, Eois encina complex (Dognin); N=58, Eois nr. pallidicosta (Warren); N=6, Eois olivacea (Felder & Rogenhofer); N=1620, Eois quadrilatera (Dognin); N=5, Eois silla (Dognin); N=1, Eois nov. spp.; N=988, Pantherodes sp.; N=1.
Hesperiidae: Pyrrhopyge papius papius (Hopffer); N=1, Vettius coryna coryna (Hewitson); N=1.
Nymphalidae: Actinote stratonice (Latreille); N=2.
Tortricidae: Sisurcana topina (Razowski & Pelz); N=1.
Larval epidopteran herbivores reared in Napo Province, Ecuador (Yanayacu Biological Station and Center for Creative Studies).
Taxonomy:For evolutionary relationship between Piper host plants and the specialist caterpillar Eois, see attached pdf (Wilson et al., 2012).
For Piper phylogeny see attached pdf (Jaramillo et al., 2008).
For original publication details of Piper baezanum see: Annuaire Conserv. Jard. Bot. Genève 21: 257. 1920.
Geographic Range:P. Baezanum is endemic to Ecuador. It is currently listed as critically endangered by the IUCN (Santiana & Pitman, 2004).
This information was accessed through the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species and Tropicos.
Santiana, J. & Pitman, N. 2004. Piper baezanum. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 11 November 2012.
Altitudinal Range:1400-2400m (based on CAPEA rearings and plant sampling)
Distribution:Larval lepidopteran herbivores collected from P. baezanum in a number of locations in Napo Province, Ecuador (Isla de Las Palmas, Yanayacu Biological Station and Center for Creative Studies, el Ollin-Sumaco, Cosanga, Sierra Azul, Cordillera de Guacomayos).
Habitat:Typically found growing on ridges.
Often grows in thick clumps.
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Piper baezanum C.DC. is an accepted name. This information was accessed through The Plant List.