- Family : PIPERACEAE
(Pepper Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : KALI MIRCH FAMILY (काली मिर्च फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Piperaceae
- Synonym(s) : Peperomia ceylanica Miq.; Peperomia duclouxii C.DC.; Peperomia haycockii C.DC.; Peperomia kurzii C.DC.; Peperomia portulacoides var. hirtella Wawra; Peperomia wightiana Miq.; Peperomia zeylanica Walp.; Piper oblongum Wall.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Peperomia heyneana Miq.
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Tropical 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
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- Arunachal Pradesh : Changlang, Kameng, Lohit, Subansiri, Tirap
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Bangladesh, China, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tibet
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Bangladesh, China, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tibet
- 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.
- G.S Giri., A.Pramanik., H.J. Chowdhery., G.D Pal and S.K. Das (2008). Materials for Arunachal Pradesh, Vol (2), Pg: 320-321
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Peperomia heyneana. Downloaded on 7 September 2024.
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Botanical Description
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Herbarium Specimen(s)
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Habitat
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India Distribution
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World Distribution
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