Flora of the Hawaiian Islands
Dicotyledon Literature for Peperomia remyi
Wagner et al., 1990, 1999.
   Piperaceae -- The Pepper Family Bibliography
      Peperomia remyi
General Information
DistributionIn the Hawaiian Islands, endemic to Kaua`i, O`ahu, Moloka`i, Lana`i, Maui, Hawai`i.















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Habit
Stems dark reddish purple, erect or ascending from a somewhat decumbent rooting base, 20-50 cm long, usually 5-10 mm in diameter toward base, branched in upper part, internodes 4-8 cm long, finely sparsely strigillose, the hairs 0.1-0.8 mm long, older stems glabrate.
Leaves
Leaves dark yellowish green on upper surface, lower surface pale green, veins often red, sometimes red over portions of surface, opposite or whorled, somewhat thick and firm, elliptic-rhombic, elliptic-lanceolate to narrowly rhombic-obovate or sometimes a few of them obovate, (4-)5-9 cm long, 2-3.5(-5) cm wide, palmately 3-5-nerved, lateral veins and some tertiary veins impressed on upper surface, upper surface sparsely strigillose or puberulent, at least toward base or along lower part of lateral veins, lower surface puberulent, sometimes only toward base, margins flat, sparsely ciliate, apex acuminate to long-acuminate, base cuneate, sometimes narrowly so, petioles 0.5-1.5 cm long, strigillose.
Flowers
Spikes several, axillary or terminal, spreading, 5-15 cm long, the rachis to ca. 1-2 mm in diameter, glabrous, flowers loosely to moderately congested, peduncles 0.3-2 cm long, rarely a few of them up to 2.5 cm long, strigillose to glabrate; ovary ovoid, apex oblique; stigmas subterminal.
Fruit
Fruit broadly ovoid, ca. 0.7-0.8 mm long, bluntly beaked.
Chromosomes
2n = 44*