Peperomia amplexicaulis

(Swartz) A. Dietrich

Sp. Pl. 1: 144. 1831.

Introduced
Basionym: Piper amplexicaule Swartz Prodr., 16. 1788
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 3.

Herbs, perennial, rhizomatous, erect, decumbent, or reclining, simple or sparsely branched, 10-60 cm, glabrous, without black, glandular dots. Leaves alternate; petiole absent or to ca. 3 mm, glabrous. Leaf-blade prominently to obscurely pinnately veined, narrowly to broadly oblanceolate, 7-20 × 2-4.5 cm, lateral-veins ascending, originating from base to near apex of blade, base decurrent, auriculate and ± clasping (amplexicaulous), apex acute or obtuse. Spikes mostly terminal, 1-3, densely flowered, 5-19 cm; peduncle glabrous, mature fruiting spikes 2-3 mm diam. Fruits sessile, ellipsoid, ca. 1.7 × 1 mm, minutely warty; beak elongate, 0.3-0.5 mm, tapering smoothly from broadened base to sharply acute apex, without filiform apical portion, straight, bent, or gradually hooked from about middle.


Phenology: Flowering all year.
Habitat: Roadsides, woodlands
Elevation: 0-20 m

Distribution

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Introduced; Fla., native, West Indies (apparently endemic to Jamaica)

Discussion

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

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... more about "Peperomia amplexicaulis"
acute;obtuse;acute +
David E. Boufford +
(Swartz) A. Dietrich +
auriculate;decurrent +
broadened +
Piper amplexicaule +
straight +
hooked +, bent +, tapering +  and elongate +
0.03 cm0.3 mm <br />3.0e-4 m <br /> (0.05 cm0.5 mm <br />5.0e-4 m <br />) +
Fla. +, native +  and West Indies (apparently endemic to Jamaica) +
0-20 m +
glandular-dotted +
1.7 cm17 mm <br />0.017 m <br /> (?) +
ellipsoid +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (?) +
Roadsides, woodlands +
7 cm70 mm <br />0.07 m <br /> (20 cm200 mm <br />0.2 m <br />) +
oblanceolate +
cauline +  and basal +
glandular +, pubescent +  and glabrous +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
Flowering all year. +
3-4-carpellate +  and 1-carpellate +
Introduced +
5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br /> (19 cm190 mm <br />0.19 m <br />) +
hypogynous +
branched +  and simple +
striate +  and reticulate +
Peperomia amplexicaulis +
Peperomia +
species +
branched +, simple +  and rhizomatous +
epiphytic +  and terrestrial +
reclining +, decumbent +  and erect +