Identidad taxonómica

Scientific name
Piper auritum Kunth
Canonical name: The scientific name without its authorship or date, for example Zea mays instead of Zea mays L.
Piper auritum
Authorship: The author or authors credited with publishing the scientific name. It is written after the name, sometimes with the year, for example L. (Linnaeus) in Zea mays L. An author in parentheses first published the name in another genus or rank.
Kunth
Common names
Mexican pepperleaf, Root Beer Plant, Vera Cruz Pepper, ear-leaf pepper, false 'awa, false kawa, sacred pepper
Names in other languages (18)Acoyo, Acoyo cimarrón, Acuyo, Anisillo, Goldpfeffer, Hoja de estrella, Kamtapanyakim, Mexikanische Blattpfeffer, Santa María, Veracruz pepper, Wayra panka, cordoncillo, hierba santa, hoja de Santa María, hoja santa, lacap-uxcue, uo, 墨西哥葉胡椒
Kingdom: One of the broadest ranks of biological classification. It groups organisms that share very basic features, for example plants (Plantae), animals (Animalia) or fungi (Fungi).
Plantae
Phylum: Rank below kingdom that groups organisms with a shared general body plan, for example chordates (Chordata), arthropods (Arthropoda) or vascular plants (Tracheophyta). In botany the same rank is also called division.
Tracheophyta
Class: Rank below phylum, for example mammals (Mammalia), birds (Aves), insects (Insecta) or monocot plants such as grasses and orchids (Liliopsida).
Magnoliopsida
Order: Rank below class that groups related families, for example grasses and their relatives (Poales) or bats (Chiroptera).
Piperales
Family: Rank below order that groups related genera. Family names usually end in -aceae in botany (for example Poaceae, the grass family) and in -idae in zoology (for example Felidae, the cat family).
Piperaceae
Genus: Rank that groups closely related species. Its name is the first word of a species' scientific name and starts with a capital letter, for example Zea in Zea mays.
Piper
Specific epithet: The second word of a species' scientific name. On its own it does not name the species: it always goes with the genus, for example mays in Zea mays.
auritum
Taxonomic rank: The level a name occupies in the hierarchy of biological classification, such as kingdom, family, genus, species or subspecies.
species
Reference species
Piper auritum
Taxonomic status: Whether the taxonomic catalogue the record comes from currently accepts this name for the organism, or treats it as a synonym of another accepted name or as doubtful.
accepted name

Photos and conservation status

IUCN Red List category: The extinction-risk category that the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) assigns to a species on its Red List. EX Extinct: there is no reasonable doubt that the last individual has died. EW Extinct in the wild: it survives only in cultivation, in captivity or as a population far outside its past range. CR Critically endangered, EN Endangered and VU Vulnerable: the three threatened categories, from an extremely high to a high risk of extinction in the wild. NT Near threatened: close to qualifying as threatened. LC Least concern: evaluated and not threatened. DD Data deficient: there is not enough information to assess its risk. NE Not evaluated: not yet assessed against the criteria. It describes the risk of the species worldwide, not its situation in a project's area.
Least concern (LC)
Source: IUCN Red List via GBIF, queried on 2026-10-12 18:00.
Photo of Piper auritum Kunth
Photo: Carlos Domínguez-Rodríguez · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Piper auritum Kunth
Photo: Carter Dorscht · CC0 1.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Piper auritum Kunth
Photo: Norma Piedra · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Piper auritum Kunth
Photo: er-birds · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Piper auritum Kunth
Photo: Ricard Busquets Reverte · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Piper auritum Kunth
Photo: Alexis López Hernández · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation

Research-grade iNaturalist observations via GBIF, CC0 or CC BY licences only, queried on 2026-10-12 18:00.

Interacciones documentadas

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A documented interaction means it was recorded somewhere in the world. It does not mean it occurs here.

Types shown: 6 of 6 is eaten by × interacts with (this species is the record's origin) × interacts with (this species is the record's destination) × is a host of × has as a vector × is dispersed by ×

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is eaten by 80 organisms

This term does declare that the organism harms this species.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Great Fruit-eating Bat Artibeus lituratus Phyllostomidae is eaten by 15 not compared
Jamaica Fruit-eating Bat Artibeus jamaicensis Phyllostomidae is eaten by 13 not compared
Seba's Short-tailed Bat Carollia perspicillata Phyllostomidae is eaten by 11 not compared
Sowell’s Short-tailed Bat Carollia sowelli Phyllostomidae is eaten by 10 not compared
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interacts with 28 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
no name interacts with 1 no location Not a modelling unit: the source publishes no name for this organism.
Euselasia interacts with 1 no location Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at genus level.
Gonodonta latimacula interacts with 1 no location
Gonodonta Erebidae interacts with 1 no location Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at genus level.
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interacts with 23 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Habralictus Halictidae interacts with 5 no location Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at genus level.
Neocorynura Halictidae interacts with 4 no location Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at genus level.
Base-banded Furrow Bees Lasioglossum Halictidae interacts with 3 no location Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at genus level.
Rhodobaenus stigmaticus Dryophthoridae interacts with 3 not compared
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is a host of 19 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it. In the source ontology symbiosis covers mutualism, commensalism and parasitism alike, so this block holds attackers and allies side by side.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
BOLD:AAA4647 Crambidae is a host of 99 not compared
BOLD:ACF4888 Hesperiidae is a host of 22 not compared
BOLD:AAA7194 Hesperiidae is a host of 14 not compared
Cercospora piperis is a host of 4 not compared
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has as a vector 17 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Jamaica Fruit-eating Bat Artibeus jamaicensis Phyllostomidae has as a vector 6 not compared
Commissaris's Long-tongued Bat Glossophaga commissarisi Phyllostomidae has as a vector 3 not compared
Seba's Short-tailed Bat Carollia perspicillata Phyllostomidae has as a vector 3 not compared
Sowell’s Short-tailed Bat Carollia sowelli Phyllostomidae has as a vector 3 not compared
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is dispersed by 3 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Emerald Toucanet Aulacorhynchus prasinus Ramphastidae is dispersed by 1 not compared
Amazonian Motmot Momotus momota Momotidae is dispersed by 1 not compared
Dusky-capped Flycatcher Myiarchus tuberculifer Tyrannidae is dispersed by 1 not compared
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Acompañantes documentados

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Documented uses and recommendations

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Among the sources you can read, none documents a use or recommendation of this species beside a crop.