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Peperomia tetraphylla

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Family Piperaceae

Taxonomy: Peperomia tetraphylla Hook. & Arn.

Synonyms: 9 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Peperomia aemula (Endl.) Endl. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Peperomia affinis Domin ex F.M.Bailey (taxonomic synonym)
  • Peperomia reflexa (L.f.) A.Dietr. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Peperomia reflexa f. norfolkensis Miq. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Peperomia reflexa var. aemula (Endl.) C.DC. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Piper aemulum Endl. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Piper reflexa P.I.Forst. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Piper reflexum L.f. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Piper tetraphyllum G.Forst. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW, LHI, NI

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (3), ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (11), ATRP_2020 (1), Chen_2017 (5), Cooper_2013 (11), Kew_2019_1 (3), NHNSW_2014_2 (1), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (13), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (7). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 29 traits from 69 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.

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): 0.6 mm (0.6-0.6 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (2); drupe (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (4) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (4) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 12.33 mm (6-14 mm) [sources: ABRS_1981; ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 8.5 mm (5-10 mm) [sources: ABRS_1981; ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.2 cm (0.1-0.3 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); orbicular (1); ovate (1); rhomboidal (1); widely_ovate (1) [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): 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 (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; 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 (2); erect (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnynnnnnn (1); yyyyynnnnnnn (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.24 mg (0.2-0.3 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.1 m (0.1-0.1 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
NHNSW_20231013N. 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_20231111Australian 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.
Wright_200077I. 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.
Chen_201755Chen, 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_202244Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Sjostrom_200644A. 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_198133B. 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/.
Kew_2019_113Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ATRP_202011F. 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.
NHNSW_2014_211Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.