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<mods:title>Species of Peperomia (Piperaceae) from the Sana River Valley, Peru</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Pino Infante, Guillermo Eloy</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Samain, Marie-Stephanie</mods:namePart>
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<mods:affiliation>Instituto de Ecologia, A. C., Centro Regional del Bajio, Red de Diversidad Biologica del Occidente Mexicano, Av. Lazaro Cardenas 253, 61600 Patzcuaro, Michoacan, Mexico</mods:affiliation>
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<mods:namePart>Alban Castillo, Joaquina Adelaida</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Alomia Collazos, Luis Enrique Aaron</mods:namePart>
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1. 
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 3" captionStartId="F3" captionText="Figure 3. Peperomia cacaophila Trel. &amp; Yunck A young plant hanging from a rock B long, trailing plant with distal inflorescence C plant ex-situ with several branches D detail of the leaves E spadix at the beginning of anthesis F mature spadix." figureDoi="10.3897/phytokeys.225.99277.figure3" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/839974" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Fig. 3A-F</figureCitation>
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<collectingCountry name="Ecuador">Ecuador</collectingCountry>
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, prov. 
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Los 
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, cant. Quevedo, roadside at Quevedo, common at Cacao groves, 
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(
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: US 1707621!, isotype: ILL)
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Figure 3.</emphasis>
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Trel. &amp; Yunck 
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young plant hanging from a rock 
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long, trailing plant with distal inflorescence 
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plant 
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with several branches 
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detail of the leaves 
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spadix at the beginning of anthesis 
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mature spadix.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Distribution and habitat.</paragraph>
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Plants were known only from central Ecuador, prov. Los 
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, Guayas, Esmeralda, and Pichincha, epiphyte on 
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or similar trees, in shaded warm forests from 200-1500 m. This is the first report for Peru.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Notes.</paragraph>
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The closest species we could compare to is 
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Yunck., also from Ecuador, which is similar in its epiphytic, pendent, or assurgent habit with small, succulent, alternate ovate leaves, cordulate at the base and 7-plinerved, compared to the obtuse, subtruncate based and noticeable 3-nerved leaves of 
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. 
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Dahlst. from Brazil, 
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Paulo (Campinas), a widely cultivated species, is similar but with larger, light green cordulate-based leaves, only stems slightly reddish. 
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Piperaceae" genus="Peperomia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Peperomia portobellensis" order="Piperales" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="portobellensis">
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Beurl. from Panama is also similar in shape but with slightly larger leaves. No material other than the types of these species was available for further comparison.
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This species belongs to 
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(Miq.) Miq. (
<bibRefCitation DOI="https://doi.org/10.12705/643.4" author="Frenzke, L" journalOrPublisher="Taxon" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="424 - 444" refId="B10" refString="Frenzke, L, Scheiris, E, Pino, G, Symmank, L, Goetghebeur, P, Neinhuis, C, Wanke, S, Samain, MS, 2015. A revised infrageneric classification of the genus Peperomia Ruiz &amp; Pav. (Piperaceae). Taxon 64 (3): 424 - 444, DOI: https://doi.org/10.12705/643.4" title="A revised infrageneric classification of the genus Peperomia Ruiz &amp; Pav. (Piperaceae)." url="https://doi.org/10.12705/643.4" volume="64" year="2015">Frenzke et al. 2015</bibRefCitation>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Specimens examined.</paragraph>
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on the 
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from 
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, 
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, 
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, 
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, 
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<collectorName>G. Pino</collectorName>
&amp; 
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L.E. 
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(USM); 
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road, 
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, 
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, 
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, 
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<collectorName>G. Pino</collectorName>
et al. 3625
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(USM 330878); idem, 
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, 
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, 
<collectingDate value="2022-08-28">28 Aug 2022</collectingDate>
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<collectorName>G. Pino</collectorName>
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