Javanese long pepper
A plant species (Piper retrofractum). The name literally means 'false ヒハツ' (ヒハツ is a related pepper species).
ヒハツモドキ is a plant of the pepper family native to Indonesia.
Standard katakana spelling for this plant name.
Ateji spelling; rarely used. It is usually written in kana.
Mixed kanji-katakana spelling; rarely used. It is usually written in kana.
From ヒハツ (Piper longum) + 擬き (もどき, 'pseudo, imitation'), referring to its resemblance to long pepper.