Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Peperomia macrostachya
quereme
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Magnoliophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida (= Dicotyledoneae)
Order
Piperales
Family
Piperaceae
Genus
Peperomia
Species
macrostachya
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Peperomia macrostachya var. nematostachya (Link) Trel. & Yunck.; Yuncker (1953) as Peperomia myosurus Willd.
Origin: Introduced - established
Year of first record: 2002
Mode of introduction: Intentional
Introduction Pathway: Intentional
Subpathway: Agriculture/Horticulture
Introduced status: Human dependent
Invasive status: Unlikely to become invasive
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
- Guézou, A. Trueman, M., Buddenhagen, E., Chamorro, S., Guerrero, A.M., Pozo, P., Atkinson, R. (2010) An extensive Alien Plan Inventory from the Inhabited Areas of Galapagos Plos One/ www.plosone.org. Volume 5/ Issue 4/e10276
- Jørgensen, P.M. León-Yánez, S. (eds.) (1999) Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Ecuador. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 75. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis, 1181 pp.
- Trelease, W. Yuncker, T.G. (1950) Piperaceae. N. South Amer. 1–838.
- Tropicos.org. (2017) Database of Missouri Botanical Garden. Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. 06 Oct 2017 <http://www.tropicos.org
- Yuncker, T.G. (1953) The Piperaceae of Argentina, Bolivia and Chile. Lilloa 27: 97–303.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Peperomia macrostachya", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=1684. Accessed 4 November 2026.