Peperomia profissa
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| Peperomia profissa | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Magnoliids |
| Order: | Piperales |
| Family: | Piperaceae |
| Genus: | Peperomia |
| Species: | P. profissa |
| Binomial name | |
| Peperomia profissa | |
Peperomia profissa is a species of terrestrial or epiphytic herb in the genus Peperomia that is native to Peru.[1][2] It grows on wet tropical biomes.[1] Its conservation status is threatened.[3]
The type specimen were collected at Chalhuapuquio, Peru.[4]
Peperomia profissa is a medium-sized, glabrous herb with a stem 2 mm thick (possibly thicker below). The leaves are typically in whorls of 3. They are lanceolate, acuminate, with a somewhat acute base, measuring 4 cm long and 1.5 cm wide, and are 5-nerved. When dry, they are thin and green, paler beneath with minute glandular-granular dots. The slender petiole is 10 mm long. The terminal spikes are 100 mm long and 3–4 mm thick, densely flowered, with a somewhat thick peduncle 15 mm long. The berries are oblong-ovoid, pointed, with a basal pseudocupula and an oblique, apical 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 Frank Lincoln Stevens.[5]
The epithet is Latin for "cut open" or "laid bare," referring to the prominently exposed floral structures or the open arrangement of the spikes.[4]