Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants - Online edition
Peperomia enervis C.DC. & F.Muell.
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Habit and leaves. © CSIRO
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Habit, Leaves. © CSIRO
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Family
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1891) The Victorian Naturalist 8: 109. Type: On Mont Bartle Frere; Stephen Johnson Lectotype: Queensland. Cook District: Mt Bartle Frere, 1890, S. Johnson (lecto (here designated): MEL!; isolecto: BRI!) [in Forster, P.I., 1993, Austrobaileya 4(1):101].
Stem
Succulent herb up to 30 cm tall. Stems erect becoming decumbent and rooting at the nodes, covered in short hairs.
Leaves
Flowers
Inflorescences terminal, 1.5-6 cm long; peduncle 5-8 mm long, glabrous; fertile axes 21-50 mm long, glabrous. Each flower sunken into axis and subtended by a shield-like bract about 0.5 x 0.5 mm. Stamens 2, one on each side of the ovary. Anthers about 0.25 mm long, pollen cream to tan in colour. Ovary rounded, green, 0.3-0.5 x 0.2-0.3 mm.
Fruit
Seedlings
Features not available.
Distribution and Ecology
Synonyms
Peperomia johnsonii DC., Annuaire de Conservatoire du Jardin Botaniques de Geneve : 286(1898), Type: In Australiae boreali-orientalis monte Bartle Frere, altitud. 5000 ped. (Stephen Johnson in h. Cand.) (holo: G-DC).
RFK Code
4077
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