Peperomia glabella |
Peperomia amplexicaulis |
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cypress peperomia |
jackie's saddle |
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Habit | Herbs, perennial, rhizomatous, erect, decumbent, or reclining, simple or branched, 8-45 cm, mostly glabrous, with numerous black, glandular dots. | Herbs, perennial, rhizomatous, erect, decumbent, or reclining, simple or sparsely branched, 10-60 cm, glabrous, without black, glandular dots. |
Leaves | blade 3-5-veined from base, ovate to narrowly or broadly elliptic, 2-6.5 × 1-4 cm, base nearly rounded to broadly cuneate, apex acute to short-acuminate; surfaces mostly glabrous. |
blade prominently to obscurely pinnately veined, narrowly to broadly oblanceolate, 7-20 × 2-4.5 cm, lateral veins ascending, originating from base to near apex of blade, base decurrent, auriculate and ± clasping (amplexicaulous), apex acute or obtuse. |
Spikes | terminal or terminal and axillary, 1-4, densely flowered, 3-13 cm, mature fruiting spikes 2-3 mm diam. |
mostly terminal, 1-3, densely flowered, 5-19 cm; peduncle glabrous, mature fruiting spikes 2-3 mm diam. |
Fruits | sessile, very broadly ovoid to globose, 0.7-0.8 × 0.6-0.7 mm, warty; beak obliquely conic, 0.1-0.2 mm. |
sessile, ellipsoid, ca. 1.7 × 1 mm, minutely warty; beak elongate, 0.3-0.5 mm, tapering smoothly from broadened base to sharply acute apex, without filiform apical portion, straight, bent, or gradually hooked from about middle. |
Peperomia glabella |
Peperomia amplexicaulis |
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Phenology | Flowering all year. | Flowering all year. |
Habitat | Epiphytic or terrestrial | Roadsides, woodlands |
Elevation | 0-20 m (0-100 ft) | 0-20 m (0-100 ft) |
Distribution |
FL; West Indies; n South America |
native; West Indies (apparently endemic to Jamaica) [Introduced, Fla.] |
Source | FNA vol. 3. | FNA vol. 3. |
Parent taxa | Piperaceae > Peperomia | Piperaceae > Peperomia |
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Synonyms | Piper glabellum | Piper amplexicaule |
Name authority | (Swartz) A. Dietrich: Sp. Pl. 1: 156. (1831) | (Swartz) A. Dietrich: Sp. Pl. 1: 144. (1831) |
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