Peperomia macrorhiza Kunth
Piperaceae
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Summary
Peperomia macrorhiza is a species of plant in the genus Peperomia. It is endemic to Peru. It is a geophytic plant, storing water and reserves in an underground tuber. During dry periods parts above ground, such as leaves, will wither away but the plant will survive due to the tuber. More on Wikipedia ›
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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 ›
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At a glance
Also known as Peperomia pachypodioides Rauh; Piper macrorhizum (Kunth) Poir.
Cultivation
Grouped as a tropical foliage plant by the genus Peperomia, which is reliably one kind of plant (archetype table). The table supplies one figure for this group, a conventional minimum for the cold floor, and no prose.
Warmth and air Cold floor 12 °C (conventional for a tropical foliage plant, archetype table).
The archetype table’s figure; no habitat figure for this species.
Cold floor: 12 °C, the archetype table's conventional minimum for a tropical foliage plant (grouped by the genus Peperomia, which is reliably one kind of plant); no habitat figure is on file for this species.
The archetype table's conventional minimum for the group; no habitat figure is on file for this species.
The figures the cards read from are in Climate below, and where they came from in Natural habitat.
Climate across the habitat
Natural habitat
Photographs
Photographs: Paris, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, SM, BY via GBIF · CC BY; Naturalis Biodiversity Center, CC0 via GBIF (2).
Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.
Papers naming this species
Works whose title or abstract names Peperomia macrorhiza, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.
Related
Other Peperomia 8 in the reference
Peperomia caperata Emerald-Ripple Peperomia
Peperomia jalcaensis Piperaceae
Peperomia monticola Piperaceae
Peperomia obtusifolia American rubberplant
Peperomia pellucida Clearweed Peperomia pugnicaudex Piperaceae
Peperomia urvilleana Piperaceae History & registers
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