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Genus: Peperomia
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> Family: Piperaceae
About 1000 species (pantropical), with seven species native to southern Africa
and an additional nine species that are cultivated in southern Africa.
Species native to southern Africa
List from
Plants
of Southern Africa - an Online Checklist (SANBI),
Flora of
Zimbabwe and
Flora of Mozambique.
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Peperomia bangroana Native distribution extends from West
Africa to Ethiopia and southwards to southern Africa
where it occurs in Zimbabwe and South Africa
(KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape). It also includes
Madagascar and the Comores. |
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Peperomia blanda
Distribution in southern Africa
includes Swaziland and South Africa (Limpopo,
Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape).
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Peperomia exigua
Native distribution extends across
tropical Africa, extending to Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
See
Flora of Zimbabwe.
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Peperomia molleri
Native distribution extends from West Africa to southern
Sudan and southwards through East Africa to as far as
Zimbabwe. |
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Peperomia pellucida
Native distribution extends from West Africa to Ethiopia
and southwards to Zimbabwe and Mozambique. |
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Peperomia retusa
Distribution in southern Africa
includes Swaziland and South Africa (Limpopo,
Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape). |
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Peperomia tetraphylla
Native distribution
covers most of subSaharan Africa and in southern Africa
it occurs in Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Swaziland and South
Africa (Limpopo, Mpumalanga, North West, Gauteng,
KwaZulu- Natal and Western Cape). |
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Other species, cultivated in southern Africa
List from Glen (2002).
Peperomia caperata
Native to Brazil. |
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Peperomia dolabriformis
Native to Peru. |
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Peperomia doellii
Native to Chile. |
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Peperomia glabella
Native to West Indies, Central America and South America. |
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Peperomia griseo-argentea |
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Peperomia maculosa
Native to West Indies, South America and Panama. |
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Peperomia obtusifolia
Native to Mexico to South America. |
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Peperomia urocarpa
Native to Brazil. |
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Peperomia verticillata
Native to West Indies. |
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