Peperomia sabaletasana
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| Peperomia sabaletasana | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Magnoliids |
| Order: | Piperales |
| Family: | Piperaceae |
| Genus: | Peperomia |
| Species: | P. sabaletasana |
| Binomial name | |
| Peperomia sabaletasana | |
Peperomia sabaletasana is a species of epiphyte in the genus Peperomia that is endemic in Colombia.[1][2] Its conservation status is Threatened.[3]
The first specimens where collected in Colombia.[4]
Peperomia sabaletasana is a repent, branching, densely rusty-villous, epiphytic herb, with hairs about 2 mm long. Its stems are 2 mm thick, rooting at the nodes, and branches ascending to 5-10 cm. The leaves alternate, elliptic-sublanceolate that is 1.5-2 cm wide and 2.5-4cm long. The tip and base is acute, drying subcoriaceous and opaque, dark above, pale yellow beneath, appressed-villous above, also beneath especially along the midrib with its characteristics being densely long-ciliate. It is 7-plinerved from below the middle, the lateral nerves are scarcely evident. The petioles are 1-2 cm long and densely villous. The axillary spikes are at the tip, as yet young, it is 1 cm long with a 2 cm villous stalk. The bracts are round. The ovary is rostrate. The stigma at the base is at the tip. The fruit is not matured.[4]
The size and shape of the leaves, together with its densely villous parts distinguish this species.[4]
Taxonomy and naming
It was described in 1950 by Truman G. Yuncker in The Piperaceae of northern South America 2, from specimens collected by José Cuatrecasas.[5] It got its name from the location where the specimens were first collected, which were in Sabaletas.[4]