Name: Piper longum L.
- Common name: Long pepper, pippali
- Vernacular name: Pipoli (Assamese), Pipari (Gujarati), Tippali (Malay)
- Family:Piperaceae
- Habits: A perennial slender, aromatic climber, glabrous with branches soft angular and grooved when dry, perennial woody roots, creeping and jointed stems.
- Habitats: found both wild as well as cultivated, throughout the hotter parts of India from central to the north-eastern Himalayas.
- Flower: Early winters
- Part used : fruits
- Distribution: Kerala, Assam and Tamil Nadu
Uses: Cleansing the lungs, kidneys, and lymph nodes and used as a brain tonic