Peperomia gleicheniiformis
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| Peperomia gleicheniiformis | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Magnoliids |
| Order: | Piperales |
| Family: | Piperaceae |
| Genus: | Peperomia |
| Species: | P. gleicheniiformis |
| Binomial name | |
| Peperomia gleicheniiformis | |
Peperomia gleicheniiformis is a species of epiphyte in the genus Peperomia that is native to Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia.[1][2] It grows on wet tropical biomes.[1] Its conservation status is Threatened.[3]
The type specimen were collected near Huancabamba, Peru.[4]
Peperomia gleicheniiformis is a small, essentially glabrous, stoloniferous herb. The stems are geniculate-flexuous, quickly becoming divaricately forking in a spreading pattern, and are barely 1 mm thick. The alternate leaves are either elliptic, measuring 10 mm long and 5 mm wide, or narrowly lanceolate, reaching 20 mm long and 8 mm wide. They are acute at both ends, 3-nerved, and firm when dry. The petiole is 2–3 mm long. The terminal spikes are 25 mm long and 1 mm thick, with conical pseudopedicels, and are borne on a slender peduncle 5 mm long. The berries are subglobose with an oblique stigma.[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 Alexander F. Skutch.[5] The epithet gleicheniiformis means "having the form of Gleichenia", referring to the plant's resemblance to these ferns in its slender, repeatedly forking stems.[4]