Peperomia ficta
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| Peperomia ficta | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Magnoliids |
| Order: | Piperales |
| Family: | Piperaceae |
| Genus: | Peperomia |
| Species: | P. ficta |
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| Peperomia ficta | |
Peperomia ficta is a species of epiphyte in the genus Peperomia that is endemic in Peru.[1][2] It grows on wet tropical biomes.[1] Its conservation status is Threatened.[3]
The type specimen were collected near La Merced, Peru at an altitude of 800-1300 meters.[4]
Peperomia ficta is a robust, cespitose-creeping, succulent, epiphytic herb. The stem is 2–4 mm thick, glabrous, and sulcate when dry. The leaves are typically in whorls of 3. They are round-elliptic to somewhat ovate or somewhat obovate, bluntly subacuminate, with an acute base, measuring 3–4 cm long and 2–3 cm wide. They are about 5-nerved, glabrous, and when dry are hard, revolute, and opaque. The petiole is 5 mm long and brown-puberulous. The terminal spikes, when young, are 30 mm long and 2 mm thick, borne on a 15 mm peduncle.[4]
Taxonomy and naming
It was described in 1936 by William Trelease in Publications of the Field Museum of Natural History, Botanical Series 13, from specimens collected by Ellsworth Paine Killip & Dorothea Eliza Smith.[5] It got its epithet from the Latin wikt:ficta, referring to the species that resembles or could be mistaken for another. [4]