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(Last Modified On 11/21/2012)
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(Last Modified On 11/21/2012)
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Species
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PEPEROMIA MAGNOLIAEFOLIA (Jacq.) A. Dietr.
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Sp. P1. 1:153. 1831.
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Synonym
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Piper magnoliaefolium Jacq. Collect. 3:210. 1789. Piper subrotundum Haw. Rev. P1. Succ. 2. 1819. Peperoinia subrotunda A. Dietr. loc. cit. 154. 1831. Peperomia amplexicaulis (Sw.) A. Dietr. var. magnoliaefolia (A. Dietr.) Griseb. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 176. 1859. Peperamia euosma Trel. in Fedde Rep. Sp. Nov. 23:29. 1926. Peperomia Antoni Trel. in Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 24:185. 1937. Peperomia Antoni f. fertilior Trel. loc. cit. 27:299. 1940. Pepercmia Antoni f. lutea Trel. loc. cit. 300. 1940.
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Description
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A moderately large, assurgent, glabrous, succulent herb; stem 3-5 mm. thick, rooting at the lower nodes, ascending to 25 cm. or more, internodes mostly 1-5 or 6 cm. long; leaves alternate, round, obovate-elliptic, or subspatulate, 3-8 cm. wide X 6-15 cm. long, apex rounded, often emarginate, base cuneate or sometimes rather abruptly contracted, drying dull, coriaceous, opaque, 7- to 9-plinerved from near the base, the rather prominent midrib pinnately branched upward, the lateral nerves slender and obscure; petiole 1-3 cm. long, more or less winged by the decurrent blade; spikes 3 mm. thick and up to 15-18 cm. long, closely flowered, 1-2 or sometimes 3 on a terminal or leaf-opposed, bracted stalk 5-10 cm. long; peduncle 1. 5-3 cm. long, glabrous or rarely obscurely hirtellous; floral bracts round-peltate, mostly about 0.5 mm. wide; fruit about 1.25 mm. long, ellipsoidal, rostrate, the beak gradually narrowed from a broad base, from one-fourth to as long as the fruit, sharp and more or less curved but usually not hooked at the apex; stigma at the base of the beak.
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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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BOCAS DEL TORO: Careening Cay, Isla Colon, alt. 0-120 m., von XWedel 565. COCLEf: El Valle de Anton and vicinity, alt. 500-700 m., Seibert 437; alt. 800-1000 m., Allen 760, ii6o, collection labelled "lata" on the herbarium sheets; between Las Margaritas and El Valle, Woodson, Allen d Seibert I298. CANAL ZONE: Experimental Gardens, Stanwood 402.
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Note
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This species is closely related to P. obtusifolia from which it is to be distin- guished, however, because of its glabrous peduncles and lower leaf surface, wider floral bracts, and with the fruit beak mostly stouter and ordinarily not hooked at the end.
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