Flora of North America species comparison

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Peperomia glabella

Peperomia magnoliifolia

cypress peperomia

spoonleaf peperomia
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, 10-40 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, spatulate to broadly ovate or broadly elliptic, 3-14 × 1.5-6 cm, lateral veins arching-ascending, originating from base to near apex of blade, base attenuate or narrowly to broadly cuneate, not auriculate, not clasping, slightly decurrent along petiole, apex notched or retuse;

surfaces resinous-dotted, especially abaxially.
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, 6-17 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, base rounded or tapering, tapering gradually to beak, 0.7-0.9 × 0.5-0.6 mm, minutely warty;

beak elongate, 0.5-1 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 magnoliifolia
Phenology Flowering all year. Flowering all year.
Habitat Epiphytic or terrestrial Hummmocks, terrestrial or epiphytic
Elevation 0-20 m (0-100 ft) 0-20 m (0-100 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
FL; West Indies; n South America
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from FNA
FL; Mexico; West Indies; Bermuda; n South America
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Source FNA vol. 3. FNA vol. 3.
Parent taxa Piperaceae > Peperomia Piperaceae > Peperomia
Sibling taxa
P. alata, P. amplexicaulis, P. humilis, P. magnoliifolia, P. obtusifolia, P. pellucida
P. alata, P. amplexicaulis, P. glabella, P. humilis, P. obtusifolia, P. pellucida
Synonyms Piper glabellum Piper magnoliaefolium, P. spathulifolia, Rhynchophorum spathulifolium
Name authority (Swartz) A. Dietrich: Sp. Pl. 1: 156. (1831) (Jacquin) A. Dietrich: Sp. Pl. 1: 153. 1831 (as magnoliaefolia)
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