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From few records: 8 records in 7 grid cells. The records.
Summary
Peperomia blanda, the arid-land peperomia, is a species of herb in the family Piperaceae. The species has a natural pan-tropical distribution that encompasses Asia, Africa, Australasia, Polynesia and the Americas. The species typically grows as a perennial, somewhat succulent herb to 30 cm in height, though the form varies from prostrate and creeping to up to 60 cm tall depending on the environment and genotype. The typical habitat is damp rock crevices and steep stream banks.
Quoted from Wikipedia, "Peperomia blanda", CC BY-SA 4.0.
About the genus · Peperomia
Peperomia is one of the two large genera of the family Piperaceae. It is estimated that there are over 1,000 species, occurring in all tropical and subtropical regions of the world. They are concentrated in South and Central America, but may also be found in southern North America, the Caribbean islands, Africa, Oceania, and southern and eastern parts of Asia. More on Wikipedia ›
Quoted from Wikipedia, "Peperomia", CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cultivation
Grouped as a tropical foliage plant, listed under the genus Peperomia in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “epiphyte”, “wet tropical”.
Seasons
The rain rule reads a sharp season: 70% of the median year's rain (1,575 mm of 2,165 mm) falls in April to May and July to November. The temperature curve is flat, 0.5 °C between the warmest and coldest month, so the growing-season rule does not infer a growing season from it. Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere. The habitat lies within 10° of the equator, where the shift rule does not apply, so they are not shifted for a collection elsewhere.
Rain
2,165 mm in the median year at the habitat, 1,575 mm of it April to May and July to November. Wettest month October at 309 mm, driest month January at 53 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 1,356 mm to 3,810 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 2,102 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 2,165 mm here is the median year's, the twelve monthly medians added, which the rain rule reads. Habitat calendar, northern hemisphere; median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA.
Light
Open sky over the habitat: 29 to 35 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 25, the highest 90th-percentile month 39).
Warmth and air
Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 8.0 °C in January (across the grid cells of the range 7.2 °C to 16.9 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 18.7 °C in August and September (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: none read. The nearest figure is 8.0 °C, the coldest month's mean nightly low, January, in the median year (CHELSA); a month's mean of its nightly lows is warmer than the nights a floor is read from. The daily extremes were read at a weather cell whose ground is too far above or below the typical spot to correct for, and are not used.
Relative humidity at the habitat: 63 to 68% across the year (monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.
How this section is made
Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.
Seasons. Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the grid cells of the range: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve moves 4 °C or more and the habitat lies 10° or more from the equator. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.
Rain. CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the grid cells of the range. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.
Light. CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.
Temperature. CHELSA monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range. No cold floor is read without a daily extremes series; the coldest month's mean nightly low named in its sentence is not one. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.
Humidity. CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the grid cells of the range.
Group. Listed under the genus Peperomia in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “epiphyte”, “wet tropical”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.
Climate across the habitat
From few records: this habitat climate is read from 8 records in 7 grid cells; a page says so under 12 records or 5 cells, and shows the figures as read.
Habitat months, northern hemisphere
Mean daily high from 18 °C in Jan, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Oct, Nov and Dec to 19 °C in Feb, Mar, Aug and Sep; mean nightly low from 8 °C in Jan and Dec to 10 °C in Apr, May and Jun. The cold quarter, Nov to Jan, is the three months around the coldest month's mean nightly low, centred on the 2 months in a row that tie for it. 2,165 mm of rain in the median year (the twelve monthly medians added), the wettest month Oct. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 7 habitat cells. Beneath: daily light integral and relative humidity through the year, each on its own scale.
Figures by month
| Figure | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day °C | 18 / 15–22 | 19 / 15–22 | 19 / 16–23 | 18 / 16–23 | 18 / 15–22 | 18 / 15–22 | 18 / 15–22 | 19 / 15–22 | 19 / 16–23 | 18 / 15–23 | 18 / 15–22 | 18 / 15–22 |
| Night °C | 8 / 7–17 | 9 / 8–17 | 9 / 8–18 | 10 / 8–18 | 10 / 8–18 | 10 / 8–18 | 9 / 7–17 | 9 / 7–17 | 9 / 7–18 | 9 / 8–18 | 9 / 8–18 | 8 / 8–17 |
| Rain mm | 53 / 38–139 | 107 / 26–187 | 158 / 22–277 | 261 / 69–425 | 244 / 130–464 | 147 / 128–355 | 159 / 118–340 | 167 / 136–322 | 192 / 182–345 | 309 / 167–450 | 243 / 129–348 | 125 / 59–198 |
| DLI | 32 / 30–35 | 35 / 30–37 | 35 / 31–39 | 30 / 28–37 | 29 / 26–35 | 29 / 25–33 | 31 / 27–34 | 33 / 30–36 | 34 / 32–37 | 31 / 30–34 | 29 / 27–32 | 30 / 28–33 |
| RH % | 63 / 62–70 | 63 / 62–69 | 63 / 62–69 | 66 / 64–71 | 68 / 64–72 | 68 / 63–73 | 67 / 61–73 | 66 / 61–72 | 66 / 61–71 | 66 / 63–71 | 67 / 66–73 | 65 / 63–72 |
The daily extremes were not used: the correction for elevation, +1092 m, is beyond the 1,000 m either way that a lapse rate is applied over, so the weather cell's ground is other terrain than the typical spot's. So no cold floor is read for this species, and the coldest month's mean nightly low is not taken as one. What that cell gave, so corrected, over 44 years: absolute minimum 0.7 °C, 1st-percentile night 3.8 °C.
How this section is made
Natural habitat
How this section is made
Photographs
Photographs: Trap Hers, CC BY-SA, via GBIF (6).
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Also known as Micropiper blandum; Peperomia blanda f. blandiformis; Peperomia blanda f. dissimilis; Peperomia blanda var. dissimilis; Peperomia blanda var. magnifolia and 27 more. (GBIF Backbone)
Kew accepts as species of their own Peperomia dissimilis: older names in GBIF's record of this species that Kew's World Checklist accepts as other species. (WCVP, RBG Kew, file of 2026-06-04)
The record
Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →
Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
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