Peperomia tenella
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Magnoliids |
| Order: | Piperales |
| Family: | Piperaceae |
| Genus: | Peperomia |
| Species: | P. tenella |
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Peperomia tenella, known as the Jayuya, is a species of perennial, lithophyte or epiphyte in the genus Peperomia.[1][2] It was first described by Olof Swartz but named it Piper tenellum.[3] Albert Gottfried Dietrich then changed the species into Peperomia and published in the book "Species Plantarum. editio sexta 1: 153. 1831".[4] It primarily grows on wet tropical biomes.[1] The species name came from the Latin word wikt:tenellus, which means tender.
It has a straightforward decumbent stem with an ascending spike and two oval, ciliated leaves.[3]
There are three to four uncial stems that are hairy, hardly striate, smooth, rarely split, and minutely reddish-dotted. The stems are little, quickly petiolate, attenuate, obtuse, vigorous, sub-succulent, glabrous, pale below leaves. Filiform spike terminal. Scales severed at the sprout's side. No style. Stigma villous. A pedicel that is three times longer than the shoot, this pedicellate berry is about the size of a tiny needle head.[3]
