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Peperomia rotundifolia

Botanic Family

Piperaceae

Author

(Linnaeus) Kunth

Common Names

• Yerba de Ratón
• Yerba Linda (Puerto Rico)
• Yerba de Medio Real (Puerto Rico)
• Bejuco de Alcanfor
• Petit Mouron (Guadeloupe)
• Gironflé (Martinique)
• Mouron (Martinique)

Geographical Habitats

• Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Ecuador
• Jamaica
• Hispaniola
• Leeward Islands
• Mexico
• Peru
• Puerto Rico
• Trinidad
• Venezuela
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• montane areas
• riverside

Flowering Times

• All year (Puerto Rico)

Fruiting Times

Epiphytic & epilithic creeping or climbing herb with aerial roots. Pubescent stem sometimes becoming glabrescent. Pubescent leaves to 10mm x 9mm with dark dots, glabrous or puberulent both sides or minutely strigulose above. Terminal & lateral flower spikes to 25mm x 1mm with bracts. Berry

Further References

• The Plant List 2
• VOPR
• FOTA
• FOPE
• SAFIO