Peperomia tenella | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Magnoliids |
Order: | Piperales |
Family: | Piperaceae |
Genus: | Peperomia |
Species: | P. tenella
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Binomial name | |
Peperomia tenella | |
Synonyms | |
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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]
Following subtaxa are accepted. [1] [2]
It is endemic to Caribbean, Central America, and South America. [1] [2]