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Peperomia subpetiolata

Yunck. (1933)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Magnoliids Order: Piperales Family: Piperaceae Genus: Peperomia

‘ala‘ala wai nui [alaala wai nui]

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Fleshy herbs.

Stems: Stems greenish with reddish purple splotches, erect to ascending from a very short repent base, stout, ca. 60–150 cm long, 8–20 mm in diameter, unbranched or few–branched in upper part, internodes 3–4 cm long or up to 12 cm long in lower part of stem, glabrous to sparsely hirsute, the hairs spreading, ca. 1 mm long.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Whorled (5–8 per node). Blades linear–lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 12–20 cm long, 1.5–4 cm wide. Apex long-acuminate. Base narrowly cuneate to attenuate. Surfaces glabrous or sparsely hirsute on veins; Upper surfaces dark green; lower surfaces pale green, relatively thin, coriaceous, drying chartaceous. Margins entire. Palmately 5-veined or pinnately veined with 2–4 pairs, veins impressed on upper surface. Petioles 0.5–1 cm long, glabrate. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers in spikes 1 to several, terminal and axillary, 8–12 cm long, the rachis 3.5–4 mm in diameter, glabrous, flowers densely congested, peduncles ca. 2–3.5 cm long, glabrous. Flowers bisexual (perfect), perianth absent. Each flower subtended by a peltate bract. Calyx (sepals) absent. Corolla (petals) absent. Stamens 2. Ovary superior, turbinate, 1-carpellate, 1-celled, apex ± oblique; ovules 1 per cell, orthotropous, erect; stigmas 1–4, terminal.

Fruit: Fruit subglobose; ca. 1 mm in diameter; papillose–viscid with sessile glands. Seeds 1 per fruit; with scanty endosperm and copious; starchy perisperm.

Ploidy:

Habitat: Mesic forest.

Elevation Range: 1,250–1,370 m.

Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Endemic

Island Status

Maui Endemic

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Bibliography

Name Published In: Bull. Bernice P. Bishop Mus. 112: 116 (1933)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:1035 (EM); Wood 2012:96 (EXTINCT?)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Scientific Name Authorship Locality Habitat Basis of Record Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Peperomia subpetiolata Yunck. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Acacia koa-Metrosideros forest. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 8968 Maui PTBG 5/23/2001
2 Peperomia subpetiolata Yunck. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Oppenheimer, H. L.; Bustamente, K. M.; Palomino, A. H61204 Maui US 6/9/2012
3 Peperomia subpetiolata Yunck. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN h. l. oppenheimer, k. m. bustamente & a. palomino h61204 Maui US 6/9/2012
4 Peperomia subpetiolata Yunck. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN H. L. Oppenheimer, K. M. Bustamente & A. Palomino H61204 Maui US 6/9/2012
5 Peperomia subpetiolata Yunck. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN H. St. John 10299 Maui F 2/11/1930
6 Peperomia subpetiolata Yunck. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Acacia koa-Metrosideros forest. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN K. R. Wood 8969 Maui PTBG 5/23/2001
7 Peperomia subpetiolata Yunck. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Dry habitat. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN st.john, h. collector number: 10299 Maui BISH 2/11/1930
8 Peperomia subpetiolata Yunck. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Hobdy, R.W. 2636 Maui BISH 10/29/1986
9 Peperomia subpetiolata Yunck. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Oppenheimer, H.L. H61204 Maui BISH 6/9/2012
10 Peperomia subpetiolata Yunck. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information cliff face in silversword enclosure PRESERVED_SPECIMEN forbes, c.n. collector number: 1283.m Hawaii BISH 9/5/1919
11 Peperomia subpetiolata Yunck. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Cultivated; originally from small (less than 10 cm.) plants growing terrestrial in mesic forest in Makawao Forest Reserve. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Oppenheimer, H.L. H61205 Maui BISH 6/9/2012
12 Peperomia subpetiolata Yunck. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Mesic forest below access road to flume; shaded bank, growing with many ferns and Rubus hawaiensis in gulch. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Wagner, W.L. 5675 Maui BISH 7/12/1986
13 Peperomia subpetiolata Yunck. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN forbes, c.n. collector number: 1283.m Maui BISH 9/5/1919
14 Peperomia subpetiolata Yunck. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN hobdy, r.w. collector number: 2635 Maui BISH
15 Peperomia subpetiolata Yunck. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Fern understory of Koa-ohia-olapa forest. Several plants growing close by. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Hobdy, R.W. 2635 Maui BISH 10/29/1986
16 Peperomia subpetiolata Yunck. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN St. John, H. 10299 Maui BISH 2/11/1930
17 Peperomia subpetiolata Yunck. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Growing up through Hoio fern patch on forested ridgetop. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN hobdy, r.w. shishido, g. collector number: 2017 Maui BISH 3/14/1984
18 Peperomia subpetiolata Yunck. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Fern understory of Koa-ohia-olapa forest. Several plants growing close by. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN hobdy, r.w. collector number: 2635 Maui BISH 10/29/1986
19 Peperomia subpetiolata Yunck. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Cultivated. Originally dug up as small plants 5 cm. tall, in Hedychium gardnerianum patch, in Makawao FR, mauka of the road to Waikamoi Flume. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Oppenheimer, H.L. H41006 Maui BISH 4/30/2010
20 Peperomia subpetiolata Yunck. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN wagner, w.l. mill, s.w.; hobdy, r.; hobdy, b.; hobdy, n. collector number: 5675 Hawaii BISH 7/12/1986
21 Peperomia subpetiolata Yunck. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN hobdy, r.w. collector number: 2636 Maui BISH 10/29/1986
22 Peperomia subpetiolata Yunck. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN h. st. john 10299 Maui F 2/11/1930
23 Peperomia subpetiolata Yunck. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN c. n. forbes 1283m NY 9/5/1919
24 Peperomia subpetiolata Yunck. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN c. n. forbes 1283m NY 9/5/1919
25 Peperomia subpetiolata Yunck. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Forbes, C.N. 1283.M Maui BISH 9/5/1919
26 Peperomia subpetiolata Yunck. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Cultivated. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Hank Oppenheimer H61204 Maui PTBG 6/9/2012
27 Peperomia subpetiolata Yunck. Contact Bishop Museum Botany department for locality information Growing up through Hoio fern patch on forested ridgetop. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Hobdy, R.W. 2017 Maui BISH 3/14/1984
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