Peperomia urvilleana A.Rich.

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Name scientific

Peperomia urvilleana A.Rich., Essai Fl. Nouv.-Zél., 356 (1832)

Preferred name

Peperomia urvilleana A.Rich.

Taxonomy reference

Allan, H.H. 1961: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. I. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. Government Printer, Wellington.

Linked name

Peperomia urvilleana A.Rich.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Indigenous, non-endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

common on Lord Howe and Norfolk Island

Nomenclature

Original authors

A.Rich.

Authors

A.Rich.

Publication place

Richard, A. 1832: Essai d'une Flore de la Nouvelle Zélande. In: Dumont d'Urville, J. Voyage de découvertes de l'Astrolabe. Botanique. Tastu, Paris.

Year published

1832

Publication page

356

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Peperomia urvilleana A.Rich.

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Peperomia urvilleana

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Piperales

Family

Piperaceae

Genus

Peperomia

Species

urvilleana

Synonyms

Descriptions

Allan, H.H. 1961: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. I. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. Government Printer, Wellington.

Peperomia urvilleana A.Rich.

Description

Low-growing glab. succulent branching herb up to 3 dm. extent; stems branched, prostrate and rooting, ascending at tips. Lvs alt. on petioles 1-4 mm. long; lamina 1-4 × 1-2 cm., fleshy (membr. when dry) 3-nerved, elliptic-oblong to broad-obovate. Spikes solitary, slender, on peduncles up to 1·5 cm. long; 2-5 cm. long; bracts orbicular-peltate. Ovary partly immersed; stigma discoid; drupe often exserted, brownish.

Dawson, M.I. 2008: Index of chromosome numbers of indigenous New Zealand vascular plants.