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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 GLABELLA (Sw.) A. Dietr.
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Sp. Pl. 1:156. 1831.
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Synonym
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Piper glabellum Sw. Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 16. 1788. Piper scandens Sw. loc. cit. 1788, not Vahl. Peperomia brachyphylla A. Dietr. loc. cit. 157. 1831. Peperomia caulibarbis Miq. Syst. Pip. 98. 1843. Peperomia lineatipila A. Rich. in La Sagra, Fl. Cub. 11:229. 1850. Peperonia trinervis Ruiz & Pav. var. brachyphylla C.DC. in DC. Prodr. 161:417. 1869. Peperomnia caulibarbis var. brachyphylla (A. Dietr.) Dahlst. Kgl. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 332:120. 1900. Pepercnmia glabella var. brachyphylla (A. Dietr.) C.DC. in Urb. Symb. Ant. 3:236. 1902. ?Peperomia chagalana C.DC. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 40:259. 1908. ?Peperomria sublaxiflora C.DC. loc. cit. 262. 1908. Peperomia similis Britt. in Mem. Torrey Bot. Club 16:61. 1920. Peperomia cubana C.DC. f. platana Trel. in Fedde Rep. Sp. Nov. 23:19. 1926. Peperomia lineatipila f. mogotana Trel. loc. cit. 1926. Pepernnia leucandra Trel. in Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 26:46. 1927. Peperomia fusco-ciliata Trel. loc. cit. 1927.
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Description
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A black-glandular-dotted, stoloniferous-assurgent herb; stem 1-2 mm. thick, branches ascending to 15 cm. or more, glabrous except for the ciliate petioles and lines decurrent from their margins below the nodes; leaves ovate to ovate-elliptic- lanceolate, 8-13 mm. wide X 15-35 mm. long, or occasionally up to 2.5 X 6 cm., acute to acuminate at both ends or not infrequently blunt or subobtuse, palmately 3- to 5-nerved, or plinerved within the lowermost 5-7 mm., ciliated near the apex, or some leaves throughout, mostly drying dark and subopaque; petiole 5-10 mm. long, grooved above, clasping-decurrent, mostly crisp-ciliate; spikes terminal and from the upper leaf axils, slender, up to 5-8 or occasionally as much as 12 cm. or more long; peduncle 10-15 mm. long; bracts round-peltate, black- dotted; fruit globose-ovoid, apex oblique, somewhat scutelliform and scutellum commonly with a thin margin, stigma subapical.
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Habit
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herb
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Distribution
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West Indies, Central America, and northern South America, in various scarcely distinguishable forms.
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Specimen
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PANAMA: without locality, Hayes 519. CHIRIQUI: vicinity of San Felix, eastern Chiriqui, alt. 0-120 m., Pittier 5I43. CANAL ZONE: valley of Masambi, on road to Las Cascadas Plantation, alt. 20-100 m., Pittier 2593; Las Cascadas Plantation, near Summit, Standley 29652; Dodge & Hunter 8657; near Rio Medio, Miller I719, I743; Chico Trail, Rio Indio, Steyermark & Allen I7460; near Salamanca Hydrographic Station on the gorge of the Rio Pequeni, 70-80 m. alt., Dodge, Steyermark & Allen I6970; near Madden Dam and along Azote Caballo Road near Alahuela, alt. 90-100 m., Dodge i6588; Barro Colo- rado Island, Kenoyer 302. COLON: forests around Porto Bello, alt. 5-100 m., Pittier 2448.
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