Peperomia tequendamana

Peperomia tequendamana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Magnoliids
Order:	Piperales
Family:	Piperaceae
Genus:	Peperomia
Species:	P. tequendamana
Binomial name
Peperomia tequendamana Trel.
Synonyms
Peperomia rotundata var. tequendamana (Trel.) Steyerm.

Peperomia tequendamana is a species of hemiepiphytic subshrub in the genus Peperomia. It was first described by William Trelease and published in the book "Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 16(1): 207. 1926". It primarily grows on montane tropical areas. The species name came from Tequendama Falls, where specimens of this species were first collected.

Description

It is a moderately small, ascending herb with more or less branches; stem moderate (2–3 mm) with short internodes, rusty crisp-villous; leaves alternate (exceptionally opposite), broadly elliptic or ovate-elliptic, obtuse at both ends or abruptly blunt-acuminate, moderate (1.5 x 2.2 x 4 cm), 5-nerved, appreassed–hairy on both faces, grandular beneath; petiole very short (2 mm.), hairy; spkies terminal and axillary, 2 x 60 mm. somewhat loosely subverticiliately flowered; peduncle approximately 10 mm. long, from sparsely crisp–pubescent glabrescent; bracts round-peltate; ovary impressed, ovoid, obtuse; stigma subspical.

Distribution

It is endemic to Central America and South America.