Fieldiana: Botany, Volume 35Chicago Natural History Museum, 1971 - Botany |
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abaxial acute adaxially anthers apical arising at angles beak becoming C.DC Caribbean closely related Contr Cordillera de Talamanca Costa Rica dehiscing laterally densely puberulent depression early stages elevation elliptic epiphytic erect Field Mus Fis.-Geog floral bracts flowering nodes flowering portion flowering rachis forming bands glabrous hairs Herb hispidum Inflorescence free lamina drying leaf-base at flowering leafy internodes Leaves alternate Leaves usually distichous major secondary veins major veins margins Meseta Central midvein minutely 0.1 minutely puberulent montane node in early obtuse older nodes pairs of major peduncle pellucid punctate pellucid verrucose Peperomia petiole Piper pistil pistil borne plants prophyll and free reddish pellucid rounded scar tissue secondary veins arising secondary veins usually sessile shoot-apex emerging Shrubs slender slightly sparsely puberulent species spikes Standl stems stigmas stipular stipular development surface tall tapering thecae thick at anthesis thick in fruit Trel truncate U.S. Nat upper secondaries arising vaginate Yuncker