Species of flowering plant
Peperomia famelica is a species of flowering plant in the genus Peperomia.[1][2] It was first described by William Trelease and published in the book "Publications of the Field Museum of Natural History, Botanical Series 13(2): 45. 1936".[3] It primarily grows on wet tropical areas.[1]
Description
It is an impoverished terrestrial herb that is somewhat grassy, with a somewhat curly-pubescent stem and alternating subovate-elliptic and subacute leaves on both sides. 2.5–5 centimetres long, 1.5–2.5 centimetres wide, 5-veined in vivo; round-peltate plates, thin spikes 60 millimetres long laden with small pseudopedicels, white veins, pink beneath; petiole 5 millimetres long.[4]
Distribution
It is endemic to Peru.[1][2]
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