Biology:Peperomia urvilleana

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Short description: Species of plant

Peperomia urvilleana
File:Peperomia urvilleana A.Rich. (AM AK357647-2).jpg
At the Inner Gulf Islands Ecological District
View of structures
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Magnoliids
Order: Piperales
Family: Piperaceae
Genus: Peperomia
Species:
P. urvilleana
Binomial name
Peperomia urvilleana
A.Rich.
Synonyms[1]
  • Peperomia adscendens (Endl.) K.Schum.
  • Peperomia baueriana Miq.
  • Peperomia endlicheri Miq.
  • Peperomia muricatulata Colenso
  • Piper adscendens Endl.
  • Piper simplex Endl.

Peperomia urvilleana is a species of flowering plant in the family Piperaceae, native to the Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Norfolk Island, the southwestern Pacific[1] and warmer areas of New Zealand (only Marlborough Sounds and Golden Bay / Mohua to the Heaphy in South Island).[2] It is a succulent subshrub of the forest floor and occasionally grows as a low trunk epiphyte.[3] Its Māori name is wharanui.[4]

References

File:Wharanui, Peperomia urvilleana.jpg
Growing on rock during October in northern New Zealand

Wikidata ☰ Q18034746 entry