Higuillo De Limon

(Piper amalago)

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Description

Piper amalago is a species of medicinal plant belonging to the Piperaceae family. They are parrots or sufferers, which are 1–6 m tall, sciophyllous, profusely branching; Tarms green, internodes 3.5–5.5 (–8) cm long (given when 10–12 cm exes monopodic), striate, inconspicuously pellucid-pointed, puberulent, glabrescent. Profile 3–5 mm long, puberulent, deciduous. Fueyes uniform in shape and size throughout, symmetrical, long ovate or elliptic-ovate, (6.5–) 7.5–12 (–13.5) cm long and (4–) 5.6–8 cm wide, apex acuminate, base cuneate to rounded, sometimes cordate in plants of low elevations, inconspicuously pellucid-pointed, sharp green on the fexe and pale green on the front, cartaceous, ocher green and opaque when dry, briefly pubescent along the main veins on both surfaces, glabrescent in the fex, palmatinervies with 5–7 main nerves diverging from base at 45 ° angles, narcissus and ascending, marginally anastomosed, inconspicuous tertiary vein, slightly elevated rib on both surfaces; petiolus 0.6–1.5 cm long, vagina, with an acutely adjusting development at the base of the petiole in bare knots, 2 mm long, expired. Inflorescences erect and pale green or yellowish in mad stages, peduncles (0.5–) 0.7–1.4 cm long, puberulent, rachis 4.5–7 (–8) cm long, pubescent, flower bracts cuculae, 0.2 mm wide, fimbriae, basally pubescent, abaxially glabrous, flowers loosely arrexuntaes nel rachis ensin form bands around the spike, sessile; stamens 4–5, filaments as long as the anthers, these with oblique dehiscence, discreet and eglandular connectivity; Pyrenoid pistil with 3–4 sessile stigmas. Fruits ovoid to cylindrical, slightly sulky, 1–1.2 mm long, apiculate, densely papillaed to puberulent, black when dry. It originated in tropical America. It lives in temperate, semi-warm and temperate climate. It is found from sea level to 1380 m. It is a mountain plant, which grows on the side of the road, accompanied by the altered vegetation of deciduous tropical forest, deciduous, evergreen, evergreen mountain and oak mountain.

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order:Piperales
Family:Piperaceae
Genus:Piper
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