AusTraits

Peperomia leptostachya

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Family Piperaceae

Taxonomy: Peperomia leptostachya Hook. & Arn.

Synonyms: 9 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Peperomia arabica var. floribunda Miq. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Peperomia baueriana var. brisbaniana C.DC. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Peperomia blanda var. floribunda (Miq.) H.Huber (taxonomic synonym)
  • Peperomia blanda var. leptostachya (Hook. & Arn.) Düll (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Peperomia dindygulensis Miq. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Peperomia leptostachya Hook. & Arn. var. leptostachya (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Peperomia leptostachya var. laxiflora Miq. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Peperomia reflexa var. valantoides (Miq.) C.DC. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Peperomia valantoides Miq. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (1), ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (12), ATRP_2020 (2), Cooper_2013 (11), Grubb_1996 (2), Hughes_1992 (4), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kew_2019_6 (2), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (11), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (4). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 25 traits from 61 records in 14 datasets.

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

fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 0.82 mm (0.8-0.9 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 0.6 mm (0.6-0.6 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (2); drupe (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; Wright_2000]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Wright_2000]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Wright_2000]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 30 mm (30-30 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 25 mm (25-25 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.6 cm (0.6-0.6 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (2); obovate (2); ovate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (2); rounded (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (2); whorled (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (6); shrub (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; Grubb_1996; Hughes_1992; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (1); erect (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; NHNSW_2022]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1) [sources: Hughes_1992]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnnyy (1); yyyyynnnnnnn (1); yyyyyyyyyyyn (1) [sources: ABRS_1981; Cooper_2013; Hughes_1992]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.25 mg (0.22-0.33 mg) [sources: Grubb_1996; Kew_2019_1]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.3 m (0.3-0.3 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Hughes_1992; NHNSW_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231112Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Cooper_2013911W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
NHNSW_20231111N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
ABRS_202244Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Hughes_199244L. Hughes and B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Traits data for 643 species, Macquarie University”. 1992.
Wright_200044I. J. Wright, H. T. Clifford, R. Kidson, M. L. Reed, B. L. Rice, and M. Westoby. “A survey of seed and seedling characters in 1744 Australian dicotyledon species: Cross-species trait correlations and correlated trait-shifts within evolutionary lineages”. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 69 (2000), pp. 521-547. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2000.tb01222.x.
NHNSW_202233N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
ATRP_202022F. 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.
Grubb_199622P. 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.
Kew_2019_112Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Kew_2019_612Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ABRS_198111B. 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/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.