Peperomia ouabianae
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Description
Epiphytic or epilithic herb, creeping and rooting at nodes. Stem loosely villous, 3-8 cm long, green to reddish. Leaves alternate; petiole to 0.5 cm long, loosely villous; blade glandular-dotted, oblong-elliptic or oblong-obovate or almost orbicular, 0.5-2 x 0.3-0.9 cm, margin ciliate, apex obtuse, base acute to obtuse, sparsely to densely villous above, less so beneath, or glabrescent; venation obvious, palmately 3-veined. Inflorescence terminal, solitary; peduncle slender, to 1.5 cm long, glabrous or minutely pubescent, green; spike 1.5-5.5 cm long, sparsely to densely flowered; floral bracts rounded, glabrous, glandular. Fruits sessile, ovoid, brown, somewhat verruculose, apex oblique with subapical stigma.
Distribution
Brazil to Paraná and Rio de Janeiro present, Guianas present, Southern America: Colombia (Colombia present); Costa Rica (Costa Rica present); Nicaragua (Nicaragua present); Venezuela (Venezuela present)
Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas and Brazil to Paraná and Rio de Janeiro; 64 collections studied (GU: 19; SU: 13; FG: 32).
Notes
In 1866, C. de Candolle had already described Peperomia sylvestris from Ecuador (J. Bot. 4: 142).
In , P. ouabianae is given as being conspecific with P. pilicaulis C. DC. The species are rather similar but differ in indument, leaf shape and size of fruit. It seems better to keep the two species apart.
In , P. ouabianae is given as being conspecific with P. pilicaulis C. DC. The species are rather similar but differ in indument, leaf shape and size of fruit. It seems better to keep the two species apart.