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Peperomia valliculae

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Species of epiphyte

Peperomia valliculae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Magnoliids
Order: Piperales
Family: Piperaceae
Genus: Peperomia
Species: P. valliculae
Binomial name
Peperomia valliculae
Trel.

Peperomia valliculae is a species of epiphyte and herb from the genus 'Peperomia'. Peperomia valliculae can mostly be found in Central America. It primarily grows in wet tropical biomes.

Etymology

In Latin, Vallicula means valley. This refers to the type locality, Cerro Valle Chiquito, Panama.

Distribution

Peperomia valliculae can be found in Panama, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Mexico. Specimens can be found at an altitude of 700–1100 meters.

Description

Its a rather large, assurgent herb; with stems 3-5 millimeters thick below, when dry, it ascends to 30 cm. leaves alternate or sometimes 2 or 3 at a node. The leaves that alternate are diamond-shaped and wide near the tip, has a blunt growing point, slightly indented, and have a triangular leaf base, which is 1–2 cm. It is glabrous; round bract stem, having dotted teeth with glands; fruit ovoid, about 0.5 millimeters. long, rather obscurely palmately 3-nerved, are glabrous on both side, cilio-late toward the apex, dark-glandular-dotted, it has a drying firm and it is opaque, Its petioles are 5-10 millimeters long, grooved above. Spikes that are terminal and axillary are 1 millimeter thick and 10-18 centimeters long. Its peduncles are 1-2 centimeters long.

References

  1. ^ "Trel. (1937). In: Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard., 24: 186". gbif.org. Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  2. "PAnn. Missouri Bot. Gard. 24: 186 (1937)". powo.science.kew.org/. Trel. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  3. ^ "Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 24(2): 186. 1937. (Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard.)". legacy.tropicos.org. Trelease, William. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  4. ^ "Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 24: 186 (1937)". wfoplantlist.org. World Flora Online Consortium. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  5. "Vallecula". en.wiktionary.org. Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879). Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  6. "Peperomia valliculae". panamabiota.org. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  7. "Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden". www.biodiversitylibrary.org/. Missouri Botanical Garden. Henry Shaw School of Botany. Graduate Laboratory. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
Taxon identifiers
Peperomia valliculae


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