Peperomia ternata is a species of hemiepiphytic subshrub from the genus Peperomia. It was first described by Casimir de Candolle and published in the book "Bulletin de l'Herbier Boissier 6(7): 509. 1898." It primarily grows in wet tropical biomes.
Distribution It is endemic to Central and Southern America. First specimens where found at an altitude of in Tungurahua, Ecuador.
Bolivia Cochabamba Chapare Carrasco La Paz Colombia Valle del Cauca Cauca Costa Rica San José Tarrazú Pérez Zeledón Acosta Dota Puntarenas Corredores Buenos Aires Cartago El Guarco Oreamuno Paraíso Guanacaste Limón Ecuador Pichincha Quito Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas Cotopaxi Napo Manabi Zamora-Chinchipe Loja Nicaragua Jinotega Rivas Panama Chiriqui David Boquete Bugaba Bocas del toro Peru Upper Rio Comainas Amazonas Venezuela Miranda Aragua Lara Táchira
Description The leaves are long-petiolate, elliptic-lanceolate, pointed at the apex, and glabrous on both sides. The central nerve, which extends to the apex at two-thirds of its length, sends alternate ascending nerves 7–8 on both sides. The common tip of the terminal peduncle is ternate, and its leaves are orbicular and ovary, emerging to half of their height above the stigmatic base.
Erect, glabrous, 3 mm-thick, dry, leathery stem Limbi in dry subpellucidum of membranous tissue, 9–11 cm in length and 4–5 cm in width About 2 cm long petioles. Each catenary is about 2 cm long, and common peduncles are around 8 1/2 cm long. The specimen contains a 5 cm juvenile densiflora catfish. 1 1/2 mm in length. dense Slightly impressed ovary rhachis with a strongly pointed but non-scaly apex. Stigma minutely papilllose, meaty.
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