Family: Piperaceae

Description: 

Large tree, 20-30 m; branches horizontal, heavy; bark deeply fissured, o 15 cm, subtended by basal sheaths, to 1.2 cm, finely serrate. Staminate spikes to 2 cm, whorled at base of young shoots; anthers 2-celled. Pistillate flowers in ovoid cones to 3 cm at pollination, subsessile. Cones obliquely ovoid, in clusters of 3; scales broad, woody, to 3.5 x 1.5 cm. Seeds ovoid, to 0.8 cm, wings to 2.5 cm.