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Peperomia quadrifolia (L.) Kunth

Fourleaf peperomia (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Piperales > Piperaceae > Peperomia

Characteristics

A small, glabrous, arboricolous herb; stem 1.5-2 mm. thick, repeatedly forking, rooting from the lower nodes, drying yellowish, somewhat scaly, angular; leaves in whorls of 3-7 but commonly 4 at a node, obovate, oblong-obovate, or obovate-elliptic, emarginate, the notch bristly-hairy, base acute to subcuneate, 5-8 mm. wide X 8-14 mm. long, obscurely palmately 3-nerved, drying coriaceous, opaque, narrowly subrevolute; petiole 1-2 mm. long, channelled above, occasionally micro-scopically hirtellous; spikes terminal, closely flowered, 1.5 mm. thick X 2-3 cm. long; peduncle 1-2 cm. long, comparatively slender; bracts round-peltate; rachis pitted; fruit obliquely ovoid, about 1 mm. long, acutely narrowed into a short, stout style, with basal pseudocupule, stigma apical.
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Epiphytic, trailing, glabrous herb. Stem erect to ascending, glabrous, up to 25 cm long, green or reddish. Leaves in whorls of 3-6, usually 4, basely attached; petiole 0.1-0.4 cm long; blade fleshy-coriaceous, subspathulate, or elliptic-, or oblong-obovate, 0.6-1.8 x 0.4-1.0 cm, apex emarginate, occasionally with hairs in indentation, base acute; palmately 3-veined. Inflorescence terminal, solitary, erect; peduncle not slender, up to 1.7 cm long, green; spike 1-3.5 (according to Henkel 946, to 10) cm long, densely flowered, green; floral bracts rounded, glabrous and sparsely glandular. Fruits basely attached, ovoid or subglobose, brown, apex attenuate or somewhat stylose, stigma apical.
Epiphytic, trailing, glabrous herb. Stem erect to ascending, glabrous, up to 25 cm long, green or reddish. Leaves in whorls of 3-6, usually 4, basely attached; petiole 0.1-0.4 cm long; blade fleshy-coriaceous, subspathulate, or elliptic-, or oblong-obovate, 0.6-1.8 x 0.4-1.0 cm, apex emarginate, occasionally with hairs in indentation, base acute; palmately 3-veined. Inflorescence terminal, solitary, erect; peduncle not slender, up to 1.7 cm long, green; spike 1-3.5 (according to Henkel 946, to 10) cm long, densely flowered, green; floral bracts rounded, glabrous and sparsely glandular. Fruits basely attached, ovoid or subglobose, brown, apex attenuate or somewhat stylose, stigma apical.
A herb.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support epiphyte
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Environment

It is a tropical plant.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

Uses medicinal
Edible leaves
Therapeutic use Antilithic (unspecified), Skin (unspecified)
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Cultivation

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Germination duration (days) 15 - 30
Germination temperacture (C°) 21 - 23
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Distribution

Peperomia quadrifolia world distribution map, present in Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, El Salvador, and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:679597-1
WFO ID wfo-0000477281
COL ID 772NN
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID 843317
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Synonyms

Peperomia quadrifolia Peperomia irazuana Peperomia standleyi Peperomia collicola Peperomia circulifolia Piper portulacifolium Piper quadrifolium Acrocarpidium jamesonianum Peperomia portulacifolia Peperomia sumichrastii Peperomia pseudotetraphylla Peperomia rioalbae Piper affine Peperomia subquadrifolia Peperomia stenocaulis Peperomia subrenifolia Piper portulacaefolium Peperomia schomburgkii Peperomia luxii Peperomia conocarpa Peperomia santa-rosana Peperomia circulifolia var. eciliata Peperomia circulifolia var. flava Peperomia jamesoniana var. microphylla Peperomia pseudotetraphylla var. juvenalis Peperomia pseudotetraphylla var. dodgei Peperomia subrenifolia var. microphylla Peperomia quadrifolia f. angusta Peperomia quadrifolia var. quadrifolia Peperomia cabaiana
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