View source for Peperomia obtusifolia

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|accepted_name=Peperomia obtusifolia
|accepted_authority=(Linnaeus) A. Dietrich
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 154. 1831
|year=1831
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Selected by author to be illustrated
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Piper obtusifolium
|authority=Linnaeus
|publication_title=Sp. Pl.
|publication_place=1: 30. 1753
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Peperomia floridana
|authority=Small
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Rhynchophorum floridanum
|authority=Small
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Rhynchophorum obtusifolium
|authority=(Linnaeus) Small
}}
|hierarchy=Piperaceae;Peperomia;Peperomia obtusifolia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Piperaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Peperomia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Peperomia obtusifolia]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 3
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, rhizomatous, erect, decumbent, reclining, or somewhat scandent, simple or sparsely branched, 8-40 cm, mostly glabrous, without black, glandular dots. <b>Leaves</b> alternate; petiole 1/5-1/2, mostly ca. 1/3, length of blade, glabrous. <b>Leaf</b> 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. <b>Spikes</b> mostly terminal, 1-2, densely flowered, 5.5-23 cm; peduncle with microscopic, spiculelike hairs, mature fruiting spikes 3.5-5.5 mm diam. <b>Fruits</b> 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.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering all year.
|habitat=Hummocks, epiphytic or terrestrial on rotten logs and humus
|elevation=0-20 m
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;n South America.
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|references=
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Peperomia obtusifolia
|author=
|authority=(Linnaeus) A. Dietrich
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Peperomia floridana;Rhynchophorum floridanum;Rhynchophorum obtusifolium
|basionyms=Piper obtusifolium
|family=Piperaceae
|phenology=Flowering all year.
|habitat=Hummocks, epiphytic or terrestrial on rotten logs and humus
|elevation=0-20 m
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;n South America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1831
|special status=Selected by author to be illustrated
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|genus=Peperomia
|species=Peperomia obtusifolia
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