特徵描述
作者
LIN, TZER-TONG and LU, SHENG-YOU
型態特徵
Herbs, erect or scandent shrubs or climbers. Stems with scattered vascular bundles, succulent or woody, aromatic. Leaves alternate, opposite or verticillate, petiolate, with or without stipules, entire, palmately nerved or penninerved, often pellucid-dotted. Inflorescences spicate, pedunculate, loosely or densely flowered, leaf-opposed, axillary or terminal. Flowers minute, unisexual or bisexual, without perianth, each subtended by a peltate bract; stamens usually 2–6, hypogynous, filaments free; ovary superior, 1-loculed, carpels 2–5, fused; ovule 1, basal, orthotropous; stigmas 1–7. Fruit a small dry or fleshy drupe or indehiscent berry.
屬
About 10 genera, with more than 3,000 species, pantropical. Two genera in Taiwan.
參考文獻
- LIN, TZER-TONG and LU, SHENG-YOU, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 2: 624. 1996. (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)
- Quisumbing, E., Philippine Journal of Science 43: 1-677. 1930. (Philipp. J. Sci.)
Peperomia 椒草屬
作者
LIN, TZER-TONG and LU, SHENG-YOU
型態特徵
Herbs, often succulent, terrestrial or epiphytic; stems prostrate to erect. Leaves opposite or verticillate except in naturalized species, petiolate, simple, entire, often with pellucid dots, glabrous to pubescent; stipules absent. Spikes terminal or axillary, solitary or umbellate, pedunculate. Flowers small, bisexual, sessile, each subtended by a peltate bract; stamens 2, anthers 2-valved, filament distinct; ovary with 1 ovule, stigma 1. Fruit a berry.
參考文獻
種列表
- Peperomia breviramula
- Peperomia dindygulensis 石蟬草
- Peperomia hoeferi
- Peperomia japonica 椒草
- Peperomia kraemeri
- Peperomia kusaiensis
- Peperomia leptostachya 紅莖椒草
- Peperomia mariannensis
- Peperomia nakaharae 山椒草
- Peperomia pacifica
- Peperomia palauensis
- Peperomia pelluana
- Peperomia pellucida 草胡椒
- Peperomia ponapensis
- Peperomia rubrivenosa 蘭嶼椒草
- Peperomia saipana
- Peperomia sp.
- Peperomia tetraphylla 小椒草
- Peperomia trifolia
- Peperomia volkensii
