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(Last Modified On 11/20/2012)
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(Last Modified On 11/20/2012)
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Species
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PEPEROMIA ACUMINATA Ruiz & Pav.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Fl. Peruv. & Chil. 1:32, Pt. 5I, f. a. 1798,
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Synonym
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Piper acuminatum Pers. Syn. 1:35. 1805, not P. acuminatum L. 1753. Piper nemorosum Vahl, Enum. P1. 1:341. 1805. Peperamia pyrifolia H.B.K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 1:61. 1815. Peperomia basellaefolia H.B.K. loc. cit. 66. 1815. Piper basellaefolium Poir. in Lam. Encycl. Meth. 4:Suppl. 468. 1816. Piper murinum Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg. 1:325. 1817. Piper pyrifolium D. Dietr. Encycl. 122. 1831, not P. pyrifolium Vahl. 1805. Peperonia nemorosa C.DC. in DC. Prodr. 161:415. 1869. ?Peperomia dichroophylla Sodiro, Contr. Conoc. Fl. Ecuator. Monogr. 1. ed. 2. 157. [1901]. Peperomia Ruiziana C.DC. in Candollea 1:301. 1923. Peperomia Eklmani Trel. in Fedde. Rep. Sp. Nov. 23:31. 1926. Peperoimia acuminatifolia Trel. in Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 26:48. 1927. Peperonia oblanceaelimba Trel. in Badillo in Cat. Fl. Venez. 1:245. 1945, name only.
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Description
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An assurgent, simple or sparingly branched, glabrous, succulent herb; stem 4-5 or sometimes 10 mm. thick when dry, ascending from the decumbent, rooting base to 60 cm. or more in large specimens; internodes 1-3 or 4 cm. long, leaf scars large, nodes commonly more or less tumid; leaves alternate, elliptic, lanceolate or oblance- olate, 2-4 cm. wide X 6-13 cm. long, apex attenuate and sharply more or less arcuately acuminate, base cuneate, decurrent, pinnately nerved, drying coriaceous and subopaque, commonly minutely dark-dotted and glandular beneath, minutely ciliolate at the apex; petiole 5-10 mm. long, or occasionally 15-20 mm. on lower leaves, more or less winged by the decurrent blade; spikes solitary, terminal, closely flowered, 3-4 mm. thick X 10-13 cm. long; peduncle 3-5 cm. long, sometimes with a small leaf or bract; floral bracts round-peltate; fruit about 1 mm. long, ellipsoidal, abruptly and truncately scutellate, sometimes yellowish at the base, stigma apical.
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Habit
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herb
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Distribution
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West Indies, Panama, and northern South America.
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Specimen
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PANAMA: without locality, Hayes 8I7.
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