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|accepted_name=Peperomia pellucida
|accepted_authority=(Linnaeus) Kunth in A. von Humboldt et al.
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in A. von Humboldt et al., Nov. Gen. Sp.
|place=1: 64. 1816
|year=1816
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|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
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|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Piper pellucidum
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|publication_title=Sp. Pl.
|publication_place=1: 30. 1753
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Piperaceae;Peperomia;Peperomia pellucida
|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 pellucida]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 3
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> annual or short-lived perennial, erect or decumbent, freely branched, 10-50 cm, glabrous, without black, glandular dots. <b>Leaves</b> alternate; petiole ca. 1/2 length of blade, glabrous. <b>Leaf</b> blade palmately 5-7-veined, broadly ovate to deltate, 0.6-4 × 0.5-3 cm, base truncate, rounded, or cordate, apex acute to slightly acuminate; surfaces glabrous. <b>Spikes</b> axillary, terminal, and opposite leaves, solitary, rarely 2-more, loosely flowered, 2-6 cm, mature fruiting spikes 1-2 mm diam. <b>Fruits</b> sessile, very broadly ovoid to globose, 0.5-0.7 × 0.4-0.5 mm, longitudinally ribbed with ladderlike reticulations; beak minute, conic, ca. 0.1 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering all year.
|habitat=In shaded woods and around nurseries and greenhouses, along coastal plain
|elevation=0-20 m
|distribution=Fla.;Ga.;La.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;n South America.
|discussion=<p><i>Peperomia pellucida</i> has shown antibacterial activity against Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus subtilis, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Escherichia coli; it could have potential as a broad spectrum antibiotic (A. C. Bojo et al. 1994).</p>
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name=Peperomia pellucida
|authority=(Linnaeus) Kunth in A. von Humboldt et al.
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Piper pellucidum
|family=Piperaceae
|phenology=Flowering all year.
|habitat=In shaded woods and around nurseries and greenhouses, along coastal plain
|elevation=0-20 m
|distribution=Fla.;Ga.;La.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;n South America.
|reference=None
|publication title=in A. von Humboldt et al., Nov. Gen. Sp.
|publication year=1816
|special status=Illustrated
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|genus=Peperomia
|species=Peperomia pellucida
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