Difference between revisions of "Peperomia humilis"

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Sp. Pl. 1: 168. 1831.

Basionym: Piper humile Vahl Enum. Pl. 1: 349. 1804
Synonyms: Micropiper humile (Vahl) Small Micropiper leptostachyon (Nuttall) Small Peperomia cumulicola Small
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Revision as of 19:54, 24 September 2019

Herbs, perennial, rhizomatous, erect or decumbent, simple or branched, 10-50 cm, strigose, without black, glandular dots. Leaves usually opposite or whorled, sometimes proximal leaves alternate; petiole ca. 1/4 length of blade, with ascending, incurved hairs. Leaf 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 axillary and terminal, 1-4, loosely flowered, 3-14 cm, mature fruiting spikes 1.5-2.5 mm diam. Fruits sessile, broadly ellipsoid to globose, 0.5-0.7 × 0.4-0.7 mm, warty, viscid; beak minute, knoblike, blunt, ca. 0.1 mm.


Phenology: Flowering all year.
Habitat: Hummocks, often on limestone
Elevation: 0-20 m

Distribution

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Fla., native, West Indies (Jamaica).

Discussion

Selected References

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Lower Taxa

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