• Family : PIPERACEAE
  (Pepper Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : KALI MIRCH FAMILY (काली मिर्च फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : PIPERACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Peperomia heyneana Miq.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : On shaded tree trunks
• Flower, Fruit : August-November
• Collection Nos : CJS 14753, KFP 9419
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : BR Hills (Chamarajanagar district), Baba budden Hills (Chikkamagaluru district), Mysuru district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Odisha : Mayurbhanj district
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Flora of Karnataka, Saldanha, 1984; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Peperomia heyneana. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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