Peperomia enervis

Explore the data for this taxon in the portal

Family Piperaceae

Taxonomy: Peperomia enervis C.DC. & F.Muell.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)

Peperomia johnsonii C.DC. (taxonomic synonym)
Peperomia johsonii C.DC. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (3), ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (10), ATRP_2020 (1), Chen_2017 (5), Cooper_2013 (11), Grubb_1996 (3), Kew_2019_1 (1), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 23 traits from 45 records in 11 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 0.7 mm (0.7-0.7 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_type (categorical): berry (1); drupe (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 15 mm (15-15 mm) [sources: ABRS_1981; ABRS_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 7 mm (7-7 mm) [sources: ABRS_1981; ABRS_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): obovate (1); obtriangular (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (1); whorled (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; Grubb_1996; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2023]
plant_growth_substrate (categorical): epiphyte (1) [sources: Grubb_1996]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
flowering_time (categorical): yyyyynnnnnnn (2); yyyyyyyyyyyn (1) [sources: ABRS_1981; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.25 mg (0.25-0.25 mg) [sources: Grubb_1996; Kew_2019_1]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.32 m (0.3-0.35 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Cooper_2013	9	11	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
ABRS_2023	10	10	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Chen_2017	5	5	Chen, S.-C., Cornwell, W., Z. H.-X., Moles, and A. T. “Plants show more flesh in the tropics: Variation in fruit type along latitudinal and climatic gradients.”. Ecography 40 (2017), pp. 531-538. doi: abs/10.1111/ecog.02010.
ABRS_2022	4	4	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Sjostrom_2006	4	4	A. Sjöström and C. L. Gross. “Life-history characters and phylogeny are correlated with extinction risk in the Australian angiosperms”. Journal of Biogeography 33.2 (2006), pp. 271-290. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01393.x.
ABRS_1981	3	3	B. A. Barlow, H. T. Clifford, A. S. George, and A. K. A. McCusker. Flora of Australia. 1981. url: http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/flora/main/.
Grubb_1996	3	3	P. J. Grubb and D. J. Metcalfe. “Adaptation and inertia in the Australian tropical lowland rain-forest flora: Contradictory trends in intergeneric and intrageneric comparisons of seed size in relation to light demand”. Functional Ecology 10 (1996), pp. 512-520. doi: 10.2307/2389944.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ATRP_2020	1	1	F. A. Zich, B. P. Hyland, T. Whiffin, and R. A. Kerrigan. Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants, Edition 8. 2020. url: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/intro/index.html.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.