Peperomia lancifolia
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Description
Terrestrial, epilithic or epiphytic herb, erect or ascending and rooting at decumbent base. Stem glabrous, 10-34 cm long, green or reddish. Leaves basely attached, alternate; petiole 0.5-1 cm long, glabrous, narrowly winged; blade fleshy and membranous, narrowly elliptic or narrowly oblanceolate, (3.5-)7-17 x (0.7-)1-3 cm, somewhat ciliate towards apex, apex acuminate, base acute, decurrent into petiole, glabrous; pinnately 7-11-veined. Inflorescence terminal or in upper leaf axils, solitary, bifurcate or once-branched; common peduncle green, not slender, 2-6 cm long, lateral branches 0.5-1.3 cm long, with linear-(ob)lanceolate, cadoucous bracts; spike densely flowered, erect, 4-11 cm long, whitish or yellowish green; floral bracts rounded, glabrous, glandular. Fruits basely attached, narrowly cylindrical, brown, apex with short beak and subapical stigma.
Distribution
C America present, Northern America, from S Venezuela and Guyana toW Brazil and Peru present
Mexico, C America, and from S Venezuela and Guyana toW Brazil and Peru; 12 collections studied (GU: 12).
Notes
In the non-Guyanan Peperomia lancifolia Hook. subsp. erasmiiformis (Trel.) Steyerm., the inflorescence is paniculate.
The collection Maguire 46076A had been misidentified as P. pyramidata Sodiro, the specimen fits well within P. lancifolia having a once-branched panicle, not a compound one as in P. pyramidata from Ecuador.
In the Guianas only: subsp. lancifolia.
The collection Maguire 46076A had been misidentified as P. pyramidata Sodiro, the specimen fits well within P. lancifolia having a once-branched panicle, not a compound one as in P. pyramidata from Ecuador.
In the Guianas only: subsp. lancifolia.