Peperomia glabella |
Peperomia humilis |
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cypress peperomia |
polynesian peperomia |
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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 or decumbent, simple or branched, 10-50 cm, strigose, 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 3-veined from base, usually elliptic to obovate, sometimes proximal blades depressed-obovate, 1.2-6.5 × 0.4-3.5 cm, base cuneate to widely cuneate, apex acute or short-acuminate; surfaces abaxially and adaxially densely to sparsely strigose. |
Spikes | terminal or terminal and axillary, 1-4, densely flowered, 3-13 cm, mature fruiting spikes 2-3 mm diam. |
axillary and terminal, 1-4, loosely flowered, 3-14 cm, mature fruiting spikes 1.5-2.5 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, broadly ellipsoid to globose, 0.5-0.7 × 0.4-0.7 mm, warty, viscid; beak minute, knoblike, blunt, ca. 0.1 mm. |
Peperomia glabella |
Peperomia humilis |
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Phenology | Flowering all year. | Flowering all year. |
Habitat | Epiphytic or terrestrial | Hummocks, often on limestone |
Elevation | 0-20 m (0-100 ft) | 0-20 m (0-100 ft) |
Distribution |
FL; West Indies; n South America |
native; West Indies (Jamaica) [Introduced, Fla.] |
Source | FNA vol. 3. | FNA vol. 3. |
Parent taxa | Piperaceae > Peperomia | Piperaceae > Peperomia |
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Synonyms | Piper glabellum | Piper humile, Micropiper humile, Micropiper leptostachyon, P. cumulicola |
Name authority | (Swartz) A. Dietrich: Sp. Pl. 1: 156. (1831) | (Vahl) A. Dietrich: Sp. Pl. 1: 168. (1831) |
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