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|accepted_name=Peperomia pellucida
|accepted_authority=(Linnaeus) Kunth in A. von Humboldt et al.
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in A. von Humboldt et al., Nov. Gen. Sp.
|place=1: 64. 1816
|year=1816
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
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|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Piper pellucidum
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|publication_title=Sp. Pl.
|publication_place=1: 30. 1753
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Piperaceae;Peperomia;Peperomia pellucida
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Piperaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Peperomia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Peperomia pellucida]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 3
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="whole_organism duration;whole_organism duration;whole_organism duration;whole_organism orientation;whole_organism orientation;whole_organism architecture;whole_organism some measurement;whole_organism pubescence;whole_organism growth form"><b>Herbs,</b> annual or short-lived perennial, erect or decumbent, freely branched, 10-50 cm, glabrous, without black, glandular dots.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="leaf arrangement"><b>Leaves </b>alternate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="petiole length;petiole pubescence">petiole ca. 1/2 length of blade, glabrous.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="leaf-blade architecture;leaf-blade shape;leaf-blade length;leaf-blade width;base shape;base shape;base shape;base shape;base shape;apex shape"><b>Leaf-</b>blade palmately 5-7-veined, broadly ovate to deltate, 0.6-4 × 0.5-3 cm, base truncate, rounded, or cordate, apex acute to slightly acuminate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="surface pubescence">surfaces glabrous.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="spike position;spike position or structure subtype;spike architecture or arrangement or growth form;spike architecture;spike some measurement;spike life cycle;spike diameter;leaf arrangement"><b>Spikes </b>axillary, terminal, and opposite leaves, solitary, rarely 2-more, loosely flowered, 2-6 cm, mature fruiting spikes 1-2 mm diam.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="fruit architecture;fruit shape;fruit length;fruit width;fruit architecture or shape;reticulation shape"><b>Fruits </b>sessile, very broadly ovoid to globose, 0.5-0.7 × 0.4-0.5 mm, longitudinally ribbed with ladderlike reticulations;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="beak size;beak shape;beak some measurement">beak minute, conic, ca. 0.1 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering all year.
|habitat=In shaded woods and around nurseries and greenhouses, along coastal plain
|elevation=0-20 m
|distribution=Fla.;Ga.;La.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;n South America
|discussion=<p>Peperomia pellucida has shown antibacterial activity against Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus subtilis, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Escherichia coli; it could have potential as a broad spectrum antibiotic (A. C. Bojo et al. 1994).</p>
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name=Peperomia pellucida
|authority=(Linnaeus) Kunth in A. von Humboldt et al.
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Piper pellucidum
|family=Piperaceae
|phenology=Flowering all year.
|habitat=In shaded woods and around nurseries and greenhouses, along coastal plain
|elevation=0-20 m
|distribution=Fla.;Ga.;La.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;n South America
|reference=None
|publication title=in A. von Humboldt et al., Nov. Gen. Sp.
|publication year=1816
|special status=Illustrated
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|genus=Peperomia
|species=Peperomia pellucida
|apex shape=acute;slightly acuminate
|base shape=cordate;rounded;cordate;rounded;truncate
|beak shape=conic
|beak size=minute
|beak some measurement=0.1
|fruit architecture=sessile
|fruit architecture or shape=ribbed
|fruit length=0.5mm;0.7mm
|fruit shape=very broadly ovoid;globose
|fruit width=0.4mm;0.5mm
|leaf arrangement=opposite;alternate
|leaf-blade architecture=5-7-veined
|leaf-blade length=0.6cm;4cm
|leaf-blade shape=broadly ovate;deltate
|leaf-blade width=0.5cm;3cm
|petiole length=1/2 length of blade
|petiole pubescence=glabrous
|reticulation shape=ladderlike
|spike architecture=flowered
|spike architecture or arrangement or growth form=solitary
|spike diameter=1mm;2mm
|spike life cycle=mature
|spike position=axillary
|spike position or structure subtype=terminal
|spike some measurement=2cm;6cm
|surface pubescence=glabrous
|whole_organism architecture=branched
|whole_organism duration=perennial;short-lived;annual
|whole_organism growth form=herb
|whole_organism orientation=decumbent;erect
|whole_organism pubescence=glabrous
|whole_organism some measurement=10cm;50cm
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