Peperomia abyssinica Miq.

Trailing or ascending fleshy mainly epiphytic but occasionally leaf-litter dwelling herb, 12–40 cm. long, with often ± thick stems, stoloniferous, glabrous save occasionally for the leaf-tips and margins.. Leaves alternate or occasionally a very few opposite, elliptic, lanceolate-elliptic, obovate or oblanceolate, often somewhat rhombic, 1.3–9.5 cm. long, 0.5–4 cm. wide, mostly obtuse, rounded or rarely emarginate at the apex but often slightly acuminate or subacute in Ethiopia, cuneate to rounded at the base, sometimes minutely ciliolate at margins, often glossy, 3-nerved from the base but lateral nerves often obscure or even invisible in dry material; petioles usually short, 0.2–0.8(–1.3) cm. long.. Spikes green or yellow-green, mostly 1 per shoot, terminal or leaf-opposed but sometimes 3, one terminal and two lateral in axils of upper pair of leaves; rhachis 2–13 cm. long, 1.5–3.5(–?4.5) mm. wide, slightly thicker than the 0.5–2 cm. long peduncle.. Fruit mostly strongly asymmetrically obovoid, 1–1.2 mm. long, papillate; style cup narrow, raised, flat-topped.

Forest in rocky places, e.g. on boulders in river beds; gallery or evergreen rain-forest, relic Widdringtonia patches and Brachystegia woodland bordering evergreen forest; sometimes epiphytic on trunks; at elevations from 750-3,150 metres.

Can be grown by seedlings.