Piper quadrifolium Linnaeus, Species Plantarum, ed. 2, 1: 43. 1762.

"Habitat in America meridionali." RCN: 248.

Lectotype (Saralegui Boza in Greuter & Rankin, Fl. Republ. Cuba, ser. A, 9(3): 18. 2004): [icon] " Piper foliis quaternis " in Plumier in Burman, Pl. Amer.: 238, t. 242, f. 3. 1760.

Current name: Peperomia quadrifolia (L.) Kunth ( Piperaceae).