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Medicine - Pollen is used to flavor cookies in Korea.
Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal
Subtropical forests.
Lesses known pepper species, valued in traditional Himalayan medicine.
Climbing shrubs.
Slendre branches and are often warted.
Leaves are shortly stalked, linear- or ovate-oblong, long-pointed, 5-12.5 x 2.5-5 cm, variable in breadth, sometimes narrowed to a minutely heart-shaped base. Base is rounded, 3-5-nerved nearly to the tip. Stalks of upper leaves are 3-6 mm long, of lower rarely 1.2 cm.
Male spikes are slender, 5-7.5 cm long, covered with peltate bracts, stamens 2-4. Females spikes are 1.2-1.6 cm, cylindric, longer than their stalks.
Fruit is 2 mm in diameter.
Flowering: November-December