Piperales

Piperales is an order of flowering plants (4,170 recognized species). It necessarily includes the family Piperaceae but other taxa have been included or disincluded variously over time. Well-known plants which may be included in this order include black pepper, kava, the many Peperomias, pepper elder, lizard's tail, birthwort, and wild ginger.

Piperales
Temporal range:
Piper aduncum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Magnoliids
Order: Piperales
Bercht. & J.Presl
Families
Synonyms
  • Aristolochiales de Jussieu ex von Berchtold & Presl 1820
  • Asarales Horan. 1847
  • Hydnorales Takhtajan ex Reveal 1992
  • Lactoridales Takhtajan ex Reveal 1993
  • Saururales von Martius 1835
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