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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 SEIBERTII Trel.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 24:185. 1937.
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Description
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A moderately large, openly branched, essentially glabrous herb, drying yellow; stem 3 mm. thick below when dry, up to 30 cm. or more tall, somewhat villous at the nodes, internodes up to 10 cm. long below, reduced upward; leaves both alternate and opposite, broadly lanceolate, apex sharply acuminate, base acute, 1-2.5 cm. wide X 2.5-6 cm. long, palmately 3- to 5-nerved, the midrib and innermost pair of lateral nerves salient beneath, pale-glandular-dotted and glabrous beneath, pubescent at the base above, ciliate toward the apex, drying membranous, trans- lucent; petiole scarcely 5 mm. long, grooved above, alately decurrent; spikes terminal and axillary, 1 mm. thick X 5-7 cm. long, loosely flowered; peduncle slender, 5-10 mm. long; bracts round-peltate; ovary ovoid, apex oblique, stigma subapical; fruit not present.
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Habit
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herb
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Distribution
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Near Monte Lirio, Chiriqui.
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Specimen
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CHIRIQUI: valley of the upper Rio Chiriqui Viejo, vicinity of Monte Lirio, alt. 1300- 1900 m., Seibert 20I.
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Note
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The alternate-opposite leaf arrangement, leaves pubescent at the base above, and pilose nodes distinguish this species.
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