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Piper kawakamii (Chinese: 恒春風藤; pinyin: Héngchūn fēngténg or 恆春胡椒; Héngchūn hújiāo), also known as the Kawakamii pepper, is a species of flowering plant in the family Piperaceae. It is native to southern Taiwan and the northern Philippines. In Taiwan plant is mainly distributed in the Hengchun Peninsula. It was collected by Takiya Kawakami at the Kuraru Community (currently known as the Kenting National Park), on July 2, 1906. In 1911, the plant was published by Bunzō Hayata as a new species. The type specimen of this plant is being preserved in the Botanical Gardens, Graduate School of Science, the University of Tokyo, Japan. and the Herbarium of Taiwan Forest Research Institute
It is mainly distributed in the low altitude area of Southern Taiwan. They usually grow in the coral reef zone, between the height of 10–300 m (33–984 ft) above sea level. The Hengchun Peninsula is their chief area of distribution, mainly at the Kenting National Park. On the other hand, it can also be seen at Dapingding, Guanshan and Shoushan in Kaoshung.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Piper kawakamii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
