Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 28 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 18 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1866), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 5(40): 197 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 23 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Macropiper Miq. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 4 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Macropiper Miq. legitimate

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 29 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 418 [secondary reference]

Britton, N.L. & Wilson, Percy (10 January 1924), Scientific Survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands 5(2): 219 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Piper nigrum L.

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 298 [secondary reference]

Chew, W.-L. (1972), Journal of the Arnold Arboretum 53: 1-25 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 88, 89 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 173 [secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Piperaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 182 [secondary reference]

Samuel, R. (1987), Chromosome numbers in Piper. Kew Bulletin 42(2): 465-470 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Piperaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 147 [secondary reference]

Du Puy, D.J. (1993), Piperaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 74 [secondary reference]

Tebbs, M.C. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1993), Piperaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 2: 518-519, Figs. 109 B-E, 110 C-I [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Piperaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 147 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 398 [secondary reference]

Spokes, T.M. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2007), Piper. Flora of Australia 2: 233-234 [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: ChI (naturalised), NT, Qld, NSW

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 670-671 [secondary reference]

Soltis, D.E., Smith, S.A., Cellinese, N., Wurdack, K.J., Tank, D.C., Brockington, S.F., Refulio-Rodriguez, N.F., Walker, J.B., Moore, M.J., Carlswars, B.S., Bell, C.D., Latvis, M., Crawley, S., Black, C., Diouf, D., Xi, Z., Rushworth, C.A., Gitzendanner, M.A., Sytsma, K.J., Qui, Y., Hilu, K.W., Davis, C.C., Sanderson, M.J., Beaman, R.S., Olmstead, R.G., Judd, W.S., Donoghue, M.J. & Soltis, P.S. (1 April 2011), Angiosperm Phylogeny: 17 genes, 640 taxa. American Journal of Botany 98(4): Fig. 2A [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Macropiper Miq. legitimate

• APC Dist.: ChI (naturalised), NT, Qld, NSW, LHI, NI

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