Acorn Peperomia
Peperomia tetraphylla
- Habit
- Herb
- Found in India
- Tamil Nadu, Meghalaya, Uttarakhand & more
- Flowering
- August-March
How to identify Acorn Peperomia
Identify Acorn Peperomia by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a herb habit.
- Check the distinctive field mark: Leaves in whorls of four.
- Confirm leaf arrangement: Whorled.
- Confirm leaf shape: Elliptic.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: August-March.
- In India, compare location records such as Tamil Nadu, Meghalaya, Uttarakhand, Sikkim and nearby regions.
- Confirm it sits within the Piperaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Acorn Peperomia.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Peperomia tetraphylla
- Genus
- Peperomia
- Family
- Piperaceae
- Habit
- Herb
- Habitat
- Evergreen, moist deciduous forests. Often on moss-clade tree trunks
- Habitat type
- Forest
- Distribution
- Paleotropics
- Found in India
- Tamil Nadu, Meghalaya, Uttarakhand, Sikkim, Kerala, Punjab, Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Manipur, Nagaland, West Bengal
- Flowering & fruiting
- August-March
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf arrangement
- WhorledrecordedThree or more leaves arise from the same point around the stem.“The leaves are elliptic or round, growing in whorls of 3 to 4, typically green but might also be reddish on the underside.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Leaf shape
- EllipticrecordedWidest at the middle, tapering evenly at both ends.“The leaves are elliptic or round, growing in whorls of 3 to 4, typically green but might also be reddish on the underside.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Leaf surface
- Glabrous (smooth, hairless)recorded
Typical of the family
Characters marked “recorded” are for Acorn Peperomia itself; the rest are typical of the Piperaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Spike
- Fruit
- Drupe
Typical of the Piperaceae family — flowering plants only; individual species can differ.
About Acorn Peperomia
A member of the Piperaceae family, Acorn peperomia (Peperomia tetraphylla) is a herb. In India it has been recorded in Tamil Nadu, Meghalaya, Uttarakhand and 12 other states. It grows in evergreen, moist deciduous forests. Often on moss-clade tree trunks. Flowering and fruiting run from August to March.
Piperaceae
Pepper family
Acorn Peperomia belongs to the Piperaceae family.
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