Peperomia tuerckheimii

Peperomia tuerckheimii is a species of flowering plant in the family Piperaceae, It is a perennial lithophyte and epiphyte. It was first described by Casimir de Candolle and published in the book "Annuaire du Conservatoire et du Jardin Botaniques de Genève 2: 279. 1898. ". It primarily grows on wet tropical biomes. The species name came from Tuerckheim, who had expeditions in Guatemala, where first specimens of this species were collected.

Distribution
It is endemic to Central and Mexico. First specimens where found at an altitude of 6 meters in Guatemala.


 * Costa Rica
 * San José
 * León Cortés
 * Puriscal
 * Pérez Zeledón
 * Puntarenas
 * Osa
 * Golfito
 * Guatemala
 * Huehuetenango
 * Alta Verapaz
 * Mexico
 * Veracruz
 * Totutla
 * Tezonapa
 * Fortin
 * Morelos
 * Chiapas
 * Oxchuc
 * Ocosingo
 * La trinitaria
 * Tuxtla Guiterrez
 * Puebla
 * Ayotoxco de Guerrero
 * Zacapoaxtla
 * Panama
 * Bocas del Toro
 * Darién
 * Coclé
 * Los Santos

Description
Axillary catkins are far pedunculate leaves about twice exceeding. Rhachi puberula, and the ovary emerges ovate-acute at the top, stigmatiferous. Leaves at the apex of the stolon are very short, crowded, and long petiolate. It is rounded-ovate at the base peltate and rounded at the apex very short-pointed on both sides with hairs.

It is short-haired herb with a prostrate, stoloniform stem that roots from the nodes. Limbs in a clear, thin, dry membrane measuring roughly 2 1/2-2 centimetres long and width about 4 cm long. The petiole and peduncle Orbicular plate from P. Muelleri; unlike P. claytonioide, it has a smaller stature and non-cordulate margins. It also has a distinct pubescence.