EcoFlora - Peperomia

Peperomia
Family: Piperaceae	FNA Resources David E. Boufford in Flora of North America (vol. 3) Herbs , annual or perennial, erect, decumbent, or prostrate, terrestrial or epiphytic, glabrous or pubescent, sometimes glandular-dotted. Leaves alternate, opposite, or whorled, glabrous or pubescent, or glandular. Leaf blade conspicuously or inconspicuously veined, lateral veins ascending-arching, or inconspicuous, tertiary veins apparently absent or very faint. Spikes terminal, terminal and axillary, or opposite leaves, densely to loosely flowered. Flowers 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. Fruits sessile or stipitate, globose, ovoid, oblong, or pyriform, surface warty, minutely reticulate, or faintly striate, ± viscid; beak mammiform or elongate, straight, bent, or hooked. Many species of Peperomia are used as houseplants, greenhouse plants, and, in warm regions, garden plants. In addition to the species below, Peperomia simplex Hamilton has been attributed to southern Florida, but no verifying specimens have been seen. A single specimen of Peperomia 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.
Species within inventory project: Arizona Flora \|\| << 1 - 50 taxa >> Peperomia abdita Map not Available Peperomia abyssinica Map not Available Peperomia aceramarcana $Image of Peperomia aceramarcana$ Map not Available Peperomia aceroana Map not Available Peperomia acuminata Map not Available Peperomia adscendens Map not Available Peperomia adsurgens Images not available Map not Available Peperomia agusanensis Images not available Map not Available Peperomia alata Map not Available Peperomia albert-smithii Images not available Map not Available Peperomia albidiflora Map not Available Peperomia albispica Map not Available Peperomia albovittata Map not Available Peperomia alpina Map not Available Peperomia alternifolia Map not Available Peperomia amnicola Map not Available Peperomia amphitricha Map not Available Peperomia ampla Map not Available Peperomia amplexicaulis Map not Available Peperomia andrei Map not Available Peperomia angustata Map not Available Peperomia antioquiensis Images not available Map not Available Peperomia antoni Map not Available Peperomia antoniana Map not Available Peperomia arboricola Map not Available Peperomia arechavaletae Images not available Map not Available Peperomia areolata Images not available Map not Available Peperomia argumentosa Map not Available Peperomia argyreia Map not Available Peperomia arifolia Map not Available Peperomia armadana Images not available Map not Available Peperomia armondii Map not Available Peperomia arthurii Images not available Map not Available Peperomia asarifolia Map not Available Peperomia asperula Map not Available Peperomia astyla Images not available Map not Available Peperomia aurorana $Image of Peperomia aurorana$ Map not Available Peperomia austin-smithii Map not Available Peperomia balansana Images not available Map not Available Peperomia bangroana Images not available Map not Available Peperomia barbarana Map not Available Peperomia barbata Map not Available Peperomia baueriana Map not Available Peperomia bella Images not available Map not Available Peperomia berlandieri Map not Available Peperomia bernoullii Map not Available Peperomia bethaniana Map not Available Peperomia biamenta Map not Available Peperomia bicolor Images not available Map not Available Peperomia blanda Map not Available