Peperomia glabella |
Peperomia obtusifolia |
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cypress peperomia |
baby rubberplant |
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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, reclining, or somewhat scandent, simple or sparsely branched, 8-40 cm, mostly 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 highly variable in size and shape, prominently to obscurely pinnately veined, elliptic, broadly elliptic, or spatulate to ovate, obovate, or very broadly ovate or broadly obovate, 2.2-13 × 1.5-5.5 cm, lateral veins arching-ascending, originating from base to about middle of blade, base attenuate, mostly narrowly to broadly cuneate, rarely slightly acuminate, apex obtuse, rounded, retuse, or notched; surfaces mostly glabrous. |
Spikes | terminal or terminal and axillary, 1-4, densely flowered, 3-13 cm, mature fruiting spikes 2-3 mm diam. |
mostly terminal, 1-2, densely flowered, 5.5-23 cm; peduncle with microscopic, spiculelike hairs, mature fruiting spikes 3.5-5.5 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, ellipsoid, both ends rounded, 0.8-1.1 × 0.4-0.5 mm, faintly longitudinally striate; beak elongate, 0.5-0.7 mm, filiform above narrowly to broadly conic base, straight or S-shaped, abruptly hooked near apex. |
Peperomia glabella |
Peperomia obtusifolia |
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Phenology | Flowering all year. | Flowering all year. |
Habitat | Epiphytic or terrestrial | Hummocks, epiphytic or terrestrial on rotten logs and humus |
Elevation | 0-20 m (0-100 ft) | 0-20 m (0-100 ft) |
Distribution |
FL; West Indies; n South America |
FL; Mexico; West Indies; n South America |
Source | FNA vol. 3. | FNA vol. 3. |
Parent taxa | Piperaceae > Peperomia | Piperaceae > Peperomia |
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Synonyms | Piper glabellum | Piper obtusifolium, P. floridana, Rhynchophorum floridanum, Rhynchophorum obtusifolium |
Name authority | (Swartz) A. Dietrich: Sp. Pl. 1: 156. (1831) | (Linnaeus) A. Dietrich: Sp. Pl. 1: 154. (1831) |
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