Peperomia uncatispica

Peperomia uncatispica is a species of plant from the genus Peperomia. It was first described by William Trelease and published in the book "Publications of the Field Museum of Natural History, Botanical Series 13: 102. 1936.". It primarily grows on wet tropical biomes.

Distribution

It is endemic to Peru and Ecuador. First specimens were found at an altitude of 1400–1700 in Junín.

Description

It is a huge, glabrous herb with euneate, bases, alternating leaves that are oblanceolate and increasingly pointy, and a short, thick stem with short internodes. Slender, long, long peduncle; round-peltate plates; spikes distributed in a single panicle terminating a lateral branch at the nodes of a solitary panicle; broad pinnatinervia everywhere, long, petiole long.