Monographs Details:
Authority:
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
Family:
Piperaceae
Piperaceae
Description:
Description - Herbs, mostly succulent, with alternate, opposite or verticillate leaves, the flowers in slender, solitary or clustered spikes, subtended by circular or elliptic bracts. Stamens 2; filaments short. Ovary mostly sessile, sometimes stalked, sometimes beaked; stigma terminal or lateral. Berry very small, globose, oblong or ellipsoid, viscid. [Greek, pepper.] Six hundred species or more, mostly of tropical America. Type species: Peperomia secunda R. & P.
Description - Herbs, mostly succulent, with alternate, opposite or verticillate leaves, the flowers in slender, solitary or clustered spikes, subtended by circular or elliptic bracts. Stamens 2; filaments short. Ovary mostly sessile, sometimes stalked, sometimes beaked; stigma terminal or lateral. Berry very small, globose, oblong or ellipsoid, viscid. [Greek, pepper.] Six hundred species or more, mostly of tropical America. Type species: Peperomia secunda R. & P.