Wild Flowering Plants
| Piperaceae family Peperomia obtusifolia (Linnaeus) A. Dietrich, Sp. Pl. 1: 154. 1831. Bas.: Piper obtusifolium Linnaeus (1753). Indigenous quite common epiphytic and lithophytic herb of upper level of semi-evergreen seasonal forest and lower level of lower montane rainforest. Antigua, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Grenada, rest of West Indies, North America, Mesoamerica, South America. A variegated form is cultivated in pots. Similar to Peperomia magnoliifolia but inflorescence never branched. |
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