Peperomia heyneana Miq.

 
  • 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 6 October 2024.

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India Distribution

World Distribution

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