Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Peperomia tetraphylla

Flower heads and leafy stems. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens nursery, Canberra, ACT

Flowering stems. Photographer Don Wood, Bomaderry Creek Regional Reserve near Nowra

Flowering plants. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Minnamurra Falls Reserve west of Kiama

Common name

Four-leaved peperomia

Family

Piperaceae

Where found

Forest and wet gullies, usually epiphytic or growing on rocks. Coast and ranges north from the Kings Highway.

Notes

fleshy erect herb to 0.20 m high, becoming sprawling and rooting at the nodes. Stems hairy to hairless. Leaves in whorls of 4, 0.6–1.4 cm long, 5–10 mm wide, hairless, upper surface glossy, secondary veins obscure, tips blunt to more or less pointed, margins entire. Flowers minute, with 0 petals, 0 sepals. Flower spikes 10–43 mm long, central stem densely bristly.

Family was Peperomiaceae.

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