Peperomia urvilleana

Peperomia urvilleana is a species of flowering plant in the family Piperaceae, native to the Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Norfolk Island, the southwestern Pacific^[1] and warmer areas of New Zealand (only Marlborough Sounds and Golden Bay / Mohua to the Heaphy in South Island).^[2] It is a succulent subshrub of the forest floor and occasionally grows as a low trunk epiphyte.^[3] Its Māori name is wharanui.^[4]

Clade:Tracheophytes

Clade:Angiosperms

Clade:Magnoliids

Order:Piperales

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Peperomia urvilleana
At the Inner Gulf Islands Ecological District
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Magnoliids
Order:	Piperales
Family:	Piperaceae
Genus:	Peperomia
Species:	P. urvilleana
Binomial name
Peperomia urvilleana A.Rich.
Synonyms[1]
Peperomia adscendens (Endl.) K.Schum. Peperomia baueriana Miq. Peperomia endlicheri Miq. Peperomia muricatulata Colenso Piper adscendens Endl. Piper simplex Endl.

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