Peperomia tenuissima
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Magnoliids |
| Order: | Piperales |
| Family: | Piperaceae |
| Genus: | Peperomia |
| Species: | P. tenuissima |
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| Peperomia tenuissima | |
Peperomia tenuissima is a species of epiphyte in the genus Peperomia found in Brazil.[1][2] It primarily grows on wet tropical biomes.[1] Its conservation status is Threatened.[3]
The first specimens where collected in Brazil.[4]
Peperomia tenuissima has leaves that are very short, petiolate, subovate-elliptic at the base, acute at the tip, pubescent on both sides, and three-nerved. The catkins are quite long, pedunculated, barely longer than the leaves themselves; the bract is orbicular and subsessile in the center; the ovary emerges at the oblique apex; and the stigmatic berry is short, oblong, and mucronulate at the apex.[4]
Ramulose branches on this epiphyte are extremely thin and heavily pubescent. The leaves change alternate. The dry membranous limbs measure 16 mm. long and 6 mm. wide. The petioles are 1 mm long and 6 mm wide. It has a very slender and glabrous catkins. The peduncles are pubescent and roughly 10 mm long. The ovary has an obliquely expanded tip. The bery is a 1/2 mm glabrous sessile. The anthers are elliptic.[4]
It resembles P. caledonica, but the form of the leaves and the shorter petioles differ from it.[4]
Taxonomy and naming
It was described in 1901 by Casimir de Candolle in Bulletin de l'Herbier Boissier, sér. 2, 1, from specimens collected by Schwacke in 1897 .[1][5] It gets its name from the characteristic of its branches, which means "Very Thin".[4]