Gualea Pepper Tree (Piper gualeanum)
This species is known exclusively from material that was collected about a century ago in the Pichincha Province of Ecuador.
The Gualea Pepper Tree is one of only 10 species in its genus that bears peltate leaves.
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edited: 27.11.2018
Dead as the Dodo – Holocene Extinctions
… about 5858 taxa have disappeared since the beginning of the Anthropocene era (since about 10000 BCE)
