Galapagos Species Database
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Peperomia galioides
congona
Terrestrial or epiphytic herb with thick stems and slender branches. The spikes are terminal and axillary, and the nodes are pellucid-dotted and yellow-glandular beneath when dry. It is loosely flowered and the fruit is globose (Wiggins and Porter, 1971).
Widely distributed in moist places in forests and jungles (Wiggins and Porter, 1971).
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Magnoliophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida (= Dicotyledoneae)
Order
Piperales
Family
Piperaceae
Genus
Peperomia
Species
galioides
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Peperomia agapatensis C. DC.
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Mexico, Central and South América (Wiggins and Porter, 1971).
- Wiggins, I.L. Porter, D.M. (1971) Flora of the Galapagos Islands Standford University Press, Stanford.
- Van der Werff, H.H. (s.a.) Pers. obs. and colls. Personal observations and collections.
- Tropicos.org. (2017) Database of Missouri Botanical Garden. Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. 06 Oct 2017 <http://www.tropicos.org
- Trelease, W. Yuncker, T.G. (1950) Piperaceae. N. South Amer. 1–838.
- Yuncker, T.G. (1953) The Piperaceae of Argentina, Bolivia and Chile. Lilloa 27: 97–303.
- Robinson, B.L. (1902) Flora of the Galapagos Islands. Papers from the Hopkins-Stanford Expedition to the Galapgaos Islands. Proc. Amer. Acad. 38(4): 78-270.
- Stewart, A. (1911) A botanical survey of the Galápagos Islands. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 4th Series, 1: 7-288.
- Christophersen, E. (1932) A Collection of Plants from the Galápagos Islands. Nyt Mag. Naturvidenskaberne 70: 67-95.
- Svenson, H.K. (1935) Plants of the Astor Expedition, 1930 (Galapagos and Cocos Islands). Am. J. Bot. 22: 208-277.
- Quintana, M.C. (2010) Wild plants in the dry valleys around Quito-Ecuador. Publicaciones del Herbario QCA, PUCE. Quito-Ecuador, 266 pp.
- WFO (2021) World Flora Online. Published on the Internet. http://www.worldfloraonline.org/ WFO (2021): World Flora Online. Published on the Internet; http://www.worldfloraonline.org.
- GBIF Secretariat (2021) GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei Accessed via https://www.gbif.org/species/5284517
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"Galapagos Species Database, Peperomia galioides", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=663. Accessed 24 April 2025.