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Peperomia kokeana

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 reddish purple, ascending to weakly erect from a short repent base, 30–50 cm long, 4–5 mm in diameter toward base, unbranched or with a few short lateral branches above middle, internodes 3–4(–7) cm long, moderately to densely strigillose, the hairs 0.2–0.4 mm long.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Whorled (2)3–5 per node. Blades oblong–lanceolate, narrowly elliptic–lanceolate, or sometimes narrowly oblanceolate, often slightly falcate, 4–7 cm long, 0.7–1.5(–1.8) cm wide. Apex attenuate to acuminate, sometimes lower leaves broadly obtuse. Base attenuate to narrowly cuneate. Surfaces strigillose, only sparsely so on upper surface; upper surfaces dark green; lower surfaces pale green, thinly firm–fleshy, drying chartaceous. Margins flat, sparsely ciliate. Palmately 3-veined, midrib strongly impressed, but lateral veins on upper surface only slightly so. Petioles 0.7–1.1 cm long, strigillose. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers in fleshy spikes 1 to several, axillary and terminal, (3–)4–10 cm long, the rachis ca. 1.5 mm in diameter, glabrous, flowers moderately congested, peduncles 0.5–2 cm long, densely strigillose. Flowers bisexual (perfect), perianth absent. Each flower subtended by a peltate bract. Calyx (sepals) absent. Corolla (petals) absent. Stamens 2. Ovary superior, ovoid, 1-carpellate, 1-celled, apex oblique; ovules 1 per cell, orthotropous, erect; stigmas subterminal.

Fruit: Fruit ovoid; ca. 0.8 mm long; papillose–viscid with sessile glands. Seeds 1 per fruit; with scanty endosperm and copious; starchy perisperm.

Ploidy: 2n = 88

Habitat: Diverse mesic forest and occasionally wet forest.

Elevation Range: 1,060–2,000 m.

Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Endemic

Island Status

Kaua'i Endemic

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Bibliography

Name Published In: Bull. Bernice P. Bishop Mus. 112: 50 (1933)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:1028 (K)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Locality Habitat Basis of Record Description Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Peperomia kokeana Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Yuncker, T.G. 3405 Kauai BISH 1933-01-27
2 Peperomia kokeana Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Yuncker, T.G. 3407 Kauai BISH 1933-01-20
3 Peperomia kokeana Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen St.John, H. 10714 Kauai BISH 1920-12-26
4 Peperomia kokeana Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Yuncker, T.G. 3408 Kauai BISH 1933-01-22
5 Peperomia kokeana Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Yuncker, T.G. 3410 Kauai BISH 1933-01-22
6 Peperomia kokeana Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Hitchcock, A.S. 15363 Kauai BISH 1916-10-20
7 Peperomia kokeana Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Yuncker, T.G. 3409 Kauai BISH 1933-01-22
8 Peperomia kokeana Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Yuncker, T.G. 3402 Kauai BISH 1933-01-24
9 Peperomia kokeana Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Yuncker, T.G. 3404 Kauai BISH 1933-01-22
10 Peperomia kokeana Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Yuncker, T.G. 3401 Kauai BISH 1933-01-20
11 Peperomia kokeana Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Corn, C. Kauai BISH 1985-01-04
12 Peperomia kokeana Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen St.John, H. 10714 Kauai BISH 1930-12-26
13 Peperomia kokeana Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details wet woods Preserved_Specimen St.John, H. 13691 Kauai BISH 1933-12-27
14 Peperomia kokeana Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Shardy stream bottom in wet forest. Growing epiphytically out of moss in Cheirodendron trigynum subsp. helleri. W/Cheirodendron trigynum subsp. helleri, Diplazium sandwicensis, Cyrtandra sp., mosses. Preserved_Specimen Sprawling herb with reddish-purple stems, dark green leaves binged purple above, lighter below, Stems hairy, upper leaf surface with short sparse hairs, lower leaf surface more pubescent. Inflorescences both axillary and terminal Williams, A.M. 52 Kauai BISH 2014-07-23
15 Peperomia kokeana Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Abundant herb in mesic forest. Preserved_Specimen Stems brownish-purple; foliage dull, dark green above, pale below. Herbst, D.R. 1057 Kauai BISH 1968-04-15
16 Peperomia kokeana Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details forest Preserved_Specimen Rock, J.F.C. 17299 Kauai BISH 1920-01-28
17 Peperomia kokeana Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details on rocks; Gonocormus, guava, Brassaia Preserved_Specimen pale yellow green Flynn, T.W. 1419 Kauai BISH 1985-12-13
18 Peperomia kokeana Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Secondary forest dominated by Aleurites, Psidium, and Metrosideros. On moss covered rocks in stream in fairly heavy shade. Preserved_Specimen Flynn, T.W. 1780 Kauai BISH 1986-06-13
19 Peperomia kokeana Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Abundant in Cryptomeria grove. Preserved_Specimen Plant to 40 cm. ht., stems purple. Nagata, K.M. 1181 Kauai BISH 1973-09-01
20 Peperomia kokeana Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details under shrubs Preserved_Specimen clumps Yuncker, T.G. 3406 Kauai BISH 1933-01-20
21 Peperomia kokeana Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details forest Preserved_Specimen stems, brownish purple; foliage dull, dark green above, pale below Herbst, D.R. 1057 Kauai BISH 1968-04-15
22 Peperomia kokeana Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details under trees, wet woods Preserved_Specimen large patches Yuncker, T.G. 3403 Kauai BISH 1933-01-20
23 Peperomia kokeana Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Mesic forest. Preserved_Specimen Avg. tree height 50'-60'. Stone, B.C. 1581 Kauai BISH 1956-12-29
24 Peperomia kokeana Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen Forbes, C.N. 1069 Kauai BISH 1917-07-03
25 Peperomia kokeana Locality redacted. Contact Bishop Museum Botany Department for details Preserved_Specimen St.John, H. 10714 Kauai BISH 1930-12-26
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