Piperales

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Magnoliids
Ordo: Piperales
Familiae: Aristolochiaceae – Piperaceae – Saururaceae

Name

Piperales Bercht. & J. Presl, Prir. Rostlin 261. (1820)

Type genus: Piper L., Sp. Pl. 1: 28. (1753)

Synonyms

Aristolochiales Dumort. 1829
Asarales Horan 1847
Hydnorales Takht. ex Reveal 1992
Lactoridales Takht. ex Reveal 1993

References

Berchtold, B.V. von & Presl, J.S. 1820. O Prirozenosti Rostlin 261.
Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. 2009. An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 161(2): 105–121. DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x Open access Reference page.
Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. 2016. An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG IV. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 181(1): 1–20. DOI: 10.1111/boj.12385 Reference page.
Massoni, J., Forest, F. & Sauquet, H.J.X. 2014. Increased sampling of both genes and taxa improves resolution of phylogenetic relationships within Magnoliidae, a large and early-diverging clade of angiosperms. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 70: 84–93. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2013.09.010 ResearchGate Reference page.
Naumann, J., Salomo, K., Der, J.P., Wafula, E.K.,Bolin, J.F., Maass, E., Frenzke, L., Samain, M.S., Neinhuis, C. & Wanke, S. 2013. Single-copy nuclear genes place haustorial Hydnoraceae within Piperales and reveal a Cretaceous origin of multiple parasitic angiosperm lineages. PLoS One 8(11), p.e79204. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0079204 Full text PDF Reference page.
Stevens, P.F. 2001 onwards. Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Version 14, July 2017 [and more or less continuously updated since]. Online. Reference page.
Tropicos.org 2014. Piperales. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2014 Jan. 25.

Vernacular names
العربية: فلفليات
azərbaycanca: İstiotçiçəklilər
català: Piperal
Cebuano: Tanom nga paminta
čeština: Pepřotvaré
dansk: Peber-ordenen
Deutsch: Pfefferartige
Ελληνικά: Πιπερώδη
Esperanto: Pipraloj
فارسی: فلفل‌سیاه‌سانان
Nordfriisk: Pöberoortagen
עברית: פלפלאים
hrvatski: Paparolike
magyar: Borsvirágúak
日本語: コショウ目
한국어: 후추목
kurdî: Piperales
lietuvių: Pipiriečiai
македонски: Пиперовидни
polski: Pieprzowce
русский: Перечноцветные
slovenčina: pieprotvaré
svenska: Pepparordningen
తెలుగు: పైపరేలిస్
ไทย: อันดับพริกไทย
Tiếng Việt: Bộ Hồ tiêu
中文: 胡椒目

Piperales is an order of flowering plants (4,170 recognized species). It necessarily includes the family Piperaceae but other taxa have been included or disincluded variously over time. Well-known plants which may be included in this order include black pepper, kava, lizard's tail, birthwort, and wild ginger.[3]

Classification
APG system

In the APG IV system, of 2016, this order is placed in the clade magnoliids and is circumscribed as follows:[4]

order Piperales

family Aristolochiaceae (including Asaraceae, Hydnoraceae and Lactoridaceae)
family Piperaceae
family Saururaceae

Magnoliids	Canellales     Piperales   Aristolochiaceae       Piperaceae     Saururaceae               Laurales     Magnoliales

 
 
 
The current composition and phylogeny of the Piperales.[4][2]

This is an expansion from the APG system, of 1998, which used the same placement (in the magnoliids) but used this circumscription:

order Piperales

family Aristolochiaceae
family Lactoridaceae
family Piperaceae
family Saururaceae

Earlier systems

The Cronquist system, of 1981, placed the order in the subclass Magnoliidae of class Magnoliopsida [=dicotyledons] and used this circumscription:

order Piperales

family Chloranthaceae
family Piperaceae
family Saururaceae

The Engler system, in its update of 1964, placed the order in subclassis Archichlamydeae in class Dicotyledoneae [=dicotyledons] and used this circumscription:

order Piperales

family Chloranthaceae
family Lactoridaceae
family Piperaceae
family Saururaceae

The Wettstein system, latest version published in 1935, assigned the order to the Monochlamydeae in subclass Choripetalae of class Dicotyledones. It used the circumscription:

order Piperales

family Piperaceae

References

Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2009). "An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 161 (2): 105–121. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x.
Stevens, P.F. "Piperales". Angiosperm Phylogeny Website.
"Introduction to the Piperales". ucmp.berkeley.edu. UC Berkeley. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2016). "An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG IV". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 181 (1): 1–20. doi:10.1111/boj.12385.