Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Peperomia blanda var. floribunda

Common name

A peperomia

Family

Piperaceae

Where found

Forest, epiphytic, on rocks, and moist situations. Coast and ranges north from Jervis Bay.

Notes

fleshy herb to 0.3 m high, becoming spawling and rooting at the nodes. Stems sparsely to densely hairy. Leaves opposite each other, rarely whorled, 1–5 cm long, 10–30 mm wide, hairy, veins usually obvious, tips blunt to pointed, margins entire. Flowers minute, with 0 petals, 0 sepals. Flower spikes 1-3-branched, 20–130 mm long, central stem hairless.

Family was Peperomiaceae.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Peperomia~blanda  (accessed 29 January, 2021)