Zippelia

{{short description|Genus of flowering plants in the pepper family Piperaceae}}

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| genus = Zippelia

| parent_authority = Blume{{cite web |title=Zippelia |url=https://www.ipni.org/n/32072-1 |website=International Plant Names Index |publisher=The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries and Australian National Botanic Gardens |access-date=31 October 2020}}

| species = begoniifolia

| authority = Blume

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Zippelia begoniifolia is the only species of the monotypic genus Zippelia, a genus of plants in the Piperaceae, the same botanical family as that of black pepper.{{cite web |title=Zippelia begoniifolia Blume |date=2017 |work=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |url=http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/707092-1 |access-date=31 October 2020}}{{cite book |last1=Backer |first1=C. A. |last2=Bakhuizen van den Brink |first2=R. C. |date=1963 |title=Flora of Java |volume=I |location=Groningen |publisher=N.V. P. Noordhoff under auspices of Rijksherbarium, Leyden |pages=167–168 |isbn=}} The species has also been spelled as Z. begoniaefolia. It is an erect, ascending, perennial herb with leaves of {{cvt|6|to|12.5|cm}} in length. It occurs in Borneo, Cambodia, southern-central and southeast mainland China as well as Hainan, Java, Laos, Peninsular Malaysia, the Philippines, Sumatra, Thailand and Vietnam.

The generic epithet commemorates Alexander Zippelius. Zippelius was a horticulturist and early collector of plants in Java and other islands of the region.{{cite web |url=http://www.etymologiebank.nl/trefwoord/zippelia |title=Zippelia - (plant) |author= |website=Etymologiebank.nl |publisher=Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal |language=nl |access-date=1 November 2020}}{{cite book |last=van Steenis |first=Cornelis Gijsbert Gerrit Jan |author-link=Kees van Steenis |date=3 August 1989 |chapter=Dedication to the memory of Carl Ludwig Blume |chapter-url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28495942 |title=Flora Malesiana |url=https://floramalesiana.org/new/ |volume=10, part 4 |location=Dordrecht |publisher=Kluwer Academic Publications, under auspices of Foundation Flora Malesiana |page=9, 36, 37 |isbn=0-7923-0421-7}}

The genus name Zippelia has a confused taxonomic history, also having been used to place the parasitic plants now classified in the genus Rhizanthes by Ludwig Reichenbach.