The pepper plants (Piperaceae) are a family of small trees and upright or bolting bushes (Lianen) of the bedecktsamigen plants. To the family belongs 5 to 8 kinds with more than 2015 kinds. The kind from this family, most important for humans, is the pepper.

The pepper plants occur in the entire Tropics. The small, zwittrigen or eingeschlechtigen blooms are arranged in ears and become

Systematics

The Peperomiaceae was in former times its own family, now the kinds the pepper plants is assigned.

The kinds of the pepper plants are divided in two Unterfamilien. Six kinds can be assigned still no Unterfamilie.

• Piperoideae

Macropiper

Pepper (Piper)

Betelpfeffer (P. betle)

Kubebenpfeffer (P. cubeba)

Kava (P. methysticum)

Black pepper (P. nigrum)

Long pepper (P. longum)

Makulan (P. auritum)

Zippelia

• Peperomioideae

Peperomia

No Unterfamilie assigned:

Arctottonia

Manekia

Pothomorphe

Sarcorhachis

Trianaeopiper

Verhuellia

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