Family: Piperaceae
Group: Dicot
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Habit:
Herb
Perennation:
Perennial
Native Range: South Florida, the West Indies, southern Mexico, Central America and northern South America.
Map of select IRC data for peninsular Florida
United States Federal Status:
State of Florida Status:
Endangered
IRC SOUTH FLORIDA Status:
Presumed Extirpated or Extinct in the Wild
SOUTH FLORIDA Occurrence:
Present
SOUTH FLORIDA Native Status:
Native
South Florida History and Distribution: Ranked as presumed extirpated in Rare Plants of South Florida (
Gann et al. 2002; pp 91-92) based on three collections between 1877 and 1922; one presumably from Brickell Hammock just south of the Miami River, and two from Hattie Bauer Hammock in southern Miami-Dade County. No new records are known. This is widely cultivated in South Florida from material outside of our area. See
iNaturalist for a discussion of the differences between this and the very similar
Peperomia obtusifolia.
SOUTH FLORIDA Cultivated Status:
Cultivated
Comments: For an image, click on the USDA PLANTS link below. For a color illustration by Nicolaus (Nicolaas) Joseph von Jacquin (as Piper magnoliifolium), visit
peperomia.net.
Synonyms: Peperomia amplexicaulis (Swartz) A. Dietrich var.
magnoliifolia (Jacquin) Grisebach,
Peperomia spathulifolia Small,
Rhynchophorum spathulifolium (Small) Small.
