Peperomia ternata is a species of hemiepiphytic subshrub from the genus Peperomia. It was first described by Casimir de Candolle and published in the book "Bulletin de l'Herbier Boissier 6(7): 509. 1898." It primarily grows in wet tropical biomes.
Distribution
It is endemic to Central and Southern America. First specimens where found at an altitude of 1,900 meters (6,200 ft) in Tungurahua, Ecuador.
Bolivia
Cochabamba
Chapare
Carrasco
La Paz
Colombia
Valle del Cauca
Cauca
Costa Rica
San José
Tarrazú
Pérez Zeledón
Acosta
Dota
Puntarenas
Corredores
Buenos Aires
Cartago
El Guarco
Oreamuno
Paraíso
Guanacaste
Limón
Ecuador
Pichincha
Quito
Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas
Cotopaxi
Napo
Manabi
Zamora-Chinchipe
Loja
Nicaragua
Jinotega
Rivas
Panama
Chiriqui
David
Boquete
Bugaba
Bocas del toro
Peru
Upper Rio Comainas
Amazonas
Venezuela
Miranda
Aragua
Lara
Táchira
Description
The leaves are long-petiolate, elliptic-lanceolate, pointed at the apex, and glabrous on both sides. The central nerve, which extends to the apex at two-thirds of its length, sends alternate ascending nerves 7–8 on both sides. The common tip of the terminal peduncle is ternate, and its leaves are orbicular and ovary, emerging to half of their height above the stigmatic base.
Erect, glabrous, 3 mm-thick, dry, leathery stem Limbi in dry subpellucidum of membranous tissue, 9–11 cm in length and 4–5 cm in width About 2 cm long petioles. Each catenary is about 2 cm long, and common peduncles are around 8 1/2 cm long. The specimen contains a 5 cm juvenile densiflora catfish. 1 1/2 mm in length. dense Slightly impressed ovary rhachis with a strongly pointed but non-scaly apex. Stigma minutely papilllose, meaty.
