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Peperomia bangroana

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Name

Identification
Peperomia bangroana C.DC. [family PIPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Isotype of Peperomia mascharena C.DC. [family PIPERACEAE ] Verified by Dull,
Related name
  • Peperomia bangroana
  • Peperomia mascharena

Flora

Entry for PEPEROMIA bangroana C. DC. [family PIPERACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 6, Part 1, page 143, (1913) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
PEPEROMIA bangroana C. DC. [family PIPERACEAE], in Journ. Bot. 1866, 134.
PEPEROMIA bangrooana C. DC. [family PIPERACEAE], in DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 404.
PEPEROMIA bagroana Dawe [family PIPERACEAE], in Rep. Bot. Uganda Protect. 1906, 55.
Information
Annual. Stem creeping, filiform, finely pubescent. Leaves alternate, petioled, orbicular, 4 lin. wide, pilose on both surfaces, ciliate on the margin, rather rigid, without visible venation. Spikes terminal, peduncled; bracts round, peltate, shortly stalked. Ovary deeply immersed in the pitted rhachis. Fruit subglobose, sessile; stigma terminal, fleshy.
Distribution
Uganda Nile Land Mawokota, 3900 ft., Brown, 194! Loro, 5000 ft., Dawe, 529!Sierra Leone Upper Guinea River Bagru, Mann, 905!Gold Coast Upper Guinea Kibbi Hills, on trunks of trees, Johnson, 273!

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