Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants - Online edition
Peperomia hunteriana P.I.Forst.
Forster, P.I. (1999) Austrobaileya 5(3): 573. Type: Queensland. COOK District: Wooroonooran National Park, Mt Bartle Frere, 25 October 1997, P.I. Forster, R. Jensen & R. Booth PIF21777 (holo: BRI; iso: MEL, QRS).
Erect succulent herb with stems up to 10 cm tall, stems densely clothed in reddish hairs.
Spike terminal, solitary or with up to 5 branches, to 5 cm long; sterile axis hairy; fertile axes 0.5-4.5 cm long. Flowers slightly sunken into axis, flowers spaced 1-1.5 mm apart; bracts rounded, 0.4-0.5 mm long and wide, larger than ovary. Anthers ca. 0.4 mm long. Ovary rounded, 0.2-0.3 mm long and wide.
Fruit have not been collected. Features coded in the key have been assigned based on features of closely related species.
Features not available.