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|accepted_name=Peperomia
|accepted_authority=Ruiz & Pavon
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. Peruv. Prodr.,
|place=8. 1794
|year=1794
}}
|common_names=Peperomia
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Piperaceae;Peperomia
|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>
|volume=Volume 3
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|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> annual or perennial, erect, decumbent, or prostrate, terrestrial or epiphytic, glabrous or pubescent, sometimes glandular-dotted. <b>Leaves</b> alternate, opposite, or whorled, glabrous or pubescent, or glandular. <b>Leaf</b> blade conspicuously or inconspicuously veined, lateral veins ascending-arching, or inconspicuous, tertiary veins apparently absent or very faint. <b>Spikes</b> terminal, terminal and axillary, or opposite leaves, densely to loosely flowered. <b>Flowers</b> sessile, borne on surface or in pitlike depressions of rachis, floral bracts glabrous or glandular-dotted; stamens 2, attached at base of ovary; stigma 1, sometimes cleft. <b>Fruits</b> sessile or stipitate, globose, ovoid, oblong, or pyriform, surface warty, minutely reticulate, or faintly striate, ± viscid; beak mammiform or elongate, straight, bent, or hooked.</span><!--

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|distribution=Mostly tropical and subtropical worldwide;especially tropical America and s Asia.
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 1000 (7 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Many species of <i>Peperomia</i> are used as houseplants, greenhouse plants, and, in warm regions, garden plants.</p><!--
--><p>In addition to the species below, <i>Peperomia</i> simplex Hamilton has been attributed to southern Florida, but no verifying specimens have been seen. A single specimen of <i>Peperomia</i> emarginella (Swartz ex Wikström) C. de Candolle is in the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden. The specimen may be from southeastern United States.</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=boufford1982a
|text=Boufford, D. E. 1982. Notes on Peperomia (Piperaceae) in the southeastern United States. J. Arnold Arbor. 63: 317-325.
}}
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Stems strigose; leaves opposite or whorled, sometimes proximal leaves alternate.
|[[Peperomia humilis|Peperomia humilis]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Stems glabrous or mostly so; leaves alternate.
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Plants with numerous black, glandular dots.
|[[Peperomia glabella|Peperomia glabella]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Plants without black, glandular dots, or leaves occasionally with yellowish, resinous or pellucid dots.
|[[#key-0-3| > 3]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Leaf blade rounded, truncate, cordate, or auriculate at base.
|[[#key-0-4| > 4]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Leaf blade narrowly to broadly cuneate, attenuate, or acuminate at base.
|[[#key-0-5| > 5]]
|-id=key-0-4
|4
|Leaf blade auriculate and ± clasping at base; petiole absent or to ca. 3 mm.
|[[Peperomia amplexicaulis|Peperomia amplexicaulis]]
|-id=key-0-4
|4
|Leaf blade rounded, truncate, or cordate at base, never clasping; petiole ca. 1/2 length of blade.
|[[Peperomia pellucida|Peperomia pellucida]]
|-id=key-0-5
|5
|Beak of fruit mammiform or conic, 0.2 mm or less; leaf blade elliptic, lanceolate, or oblanceolate; petiole slightly dilated and clasping at base, decurrent in lines or conspicuous interrnodal wings along stem.
|[[Peperomia alata|Peperomia alata]]
|-id=key-0-5
|5
|Beak of fruit elongate, 0.5–1 mm; leaf blade oblanceolate, elliptic-obovate, ovate, or spatulate; petiole not dilated at base, if appearing to be clasping, then not decurrent in lines or wings along stem.
|[[#key-0-6| > 6]]
|-id=key-0-6
|6
|Peduncle with microscopic, spiculelike hairs; beak of fruit filiform above conic base, abruptly hooked near apex.
|[[Peperomia obtusifolia|Peperomia obtusifolia]]
|-id=key-0-6
|6
|Peduncle glabrous; beak of fruit tapering smoothly from broadened base to sharply acute apex, straight, bent, or gradually hooked from about middle.
|[[#key-0-7| > 7]]
|-id=key-0-7
|7
|Leaves petiolate; leaf blade slightly decurrent along petiole, neither auriculate nor clasping.
|[[Peperomia magnoliifolia|Peperomia magnoliifolia]]
|-id=key-0-7
|7
|Leaves sessile or nearly sessile; leaf blade auriculate at base, ± clasping.
|[[Peperomia amplexicaulis|Peperomia amplexicaulis]]
|}
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name=Peperomia
|authority=Ruiz & Pavon
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|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Piperaceae
|distribution=Mostly tropical and subtropical worldwide;especially tropical America and s Asia.
|reference=boufford1982a
|publication title=Fl. Peruv. Prodr.,
|publication year=1794
|special status=
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|genus=Peperomia
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