The chemical study of leaves and the fruits of P. richardiaefolium resulted in the isolation of eight lignans, being two furofurânics lignans (sesamin and kobusin), four dibenzylbutirolactonics lignans (hinokinin, kusunokinin, arctigenin and haplomirfolin), two dibenzylbutirolactolics lignans (cubebin and 3',4'-dimethoxy-3,4- desmethylenedioxicubebin), two cinnamates (bornyl ferulate and bornyl cumarate) and in the identification of two amides (piplartine and dihydropiplartine). Of leaves of P. richardiaefolium was extracted and analyzed the volatile oil. The structures of isolated substances had been identified using the spectroscopic methods (¹H and ¹³C NMR) and mass spectrometry. The study of principal components analysis (PCA) of the species Piper (P. truncatum - k 616, P. richardiaefolium - k 290, P. richardiaefolium - k 350, P. richardiaefolium - k 593, P. truncatum - k 597, P. pseudopotifolium - k 598, P. richardiaefolium - k 854, P. richardiaefolium - k 610, P. truncatum - k 112, P. pseudopotifolium - k 211 and P. cernuum - k 137) allowed the separation in two groups and four sub-groups. Lignins of stem of six species of Piper had been extracted using the method of degradation of Klason and method of Bjorkman, and analyzed for spectroscopic methods (IR, ¹H and ¹³C NMR). The degradation method by nitrobenzene oxidation was chosen to determine the relationship between monolignols syringil and guaiacyl moieties. The major metabolities of the Piper species were compared to the lignins types of the same species and the results suggested independence between the biosynthetic pathways of lignins and lignans.