Botanical Name

Piper guineense Thonn. [Piperaceae]

Specimen Type

Herbarium Sheet [Preserved Specimen]

Collector

Peter Thonning

Collection Date-s

1799 – 1803

Collection Location

southern part of the country [Ghana]

Colonial Context

Danish Gold Coast of Africa 1663–2118

Annotations Determinations and Type Specimen Status

On sheet: e Guinea d. Dom. Thonning

On label: Pip. guineense subherbaceum parasiticum fol: cordatis acuminatis sub 5 nerviis Th

IDC microfiche foto: Isert et Thonning nr. 85 I 3-4

Piper guineense Thonn. SYNTYPE. Beskr. Guineiske Pl.: 19 (1827)

Ownership and Collection Management History

Thonning 282

Common Names

Dojvié [Schumacher/Thonning]; Asiante-Peber [Danish]

Historical Cultural and Traditional Knowledge

[Hepper (1976) p. 103:] "The fruit is a bad substitute for black pepper; as it has an unpleasant bitterness; which is stronger and more distasteful the fresher it is. Th."

Source

Herbarium C NHMD

NHMD Herbarium C Catalogue Number

C10004379

C10004379

Copyright Owner

Natural History Museum of Denmark

Copyright License

CC BY 4.0 (images) and CC0 (metadata)