External links to taxonomic opinions:
- IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
- urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:32060-1
- Publication
- Posthumous papers bequeathed to the East India company, and printed by order of the government of Bengal: Notulæ ad Plantas Asiaticas / by the late William Griffith ... arranged by John M'Clelland. Calcutta
- Collation
- 4: 383
- Family as entered in IPNI
- Piperaceae
Nomenclatural Notes
Status: orth. var. Schizonephros Griff.
Remarks
Greek nephos = cloud; nephros = kidney. The protologue shows the spike branches (= receptacles) as reniform. John McClelland was the editor of Griffith’s (1810-1845) posthumous publication, and occasionally Griffith’s writing was misread. According to Hooker (Fl. Brit. India 5: 80. 1886), Griffith’s manuscript had “Schizonephros”; in this regard, Hooker mentioned: “I have altered the misprint Schizonephos to -nephros, as in Griffith's mss., the derivation from [Greek] νεφρός a kidney being obvious”