Peperomia tequendamana

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: 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 with short internodes, rusty crisp-villous; leaves alternate, broadly elliptic or ovate-elliptic, obtuse at both ends or abruptly blunt-acuminate, moderate, 5-nerved, appreassed–hairy on both faces, grandular beneath; petiole very short, 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.