Peperomia lanceolatopeltataC.DC.

WFO wfo-0000477548 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Peperomia lanceolatopeltata, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. a Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-10-14 / obs. 163868017
Peperomia lanceolatopeltata, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. b Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 163358275
Peperomia lanceolatopeltata, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. c Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 153748646
Peperomia lanceolatopeltata, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. d Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 26530117
Peperomia lanceolatopeltata, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. e Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 9487835
Peperomia lanceolatopeltata, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. f Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 5492936
Peperomia lanceolatopeltata, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. g Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 5331132
Peperomia lanceolatopeltata, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. h Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 163358284

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Native range 11 botanical countries

Regions where Peperomia lanceolatopeltata is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panamá, Venezuela Mexico CentralMexico GulfMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestCosta RicaEl SalvadorGuatemalaHondurasNicaraguaPanamáVenezuela
Native distribution of Peperomia lanceolatopeltata, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Costa Rica COS SOUTHERN AMERICA
El Salvador ELS
Guatemala GUA
Honduras HON
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Venezuela VEN
Mexico Central MXC NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 59 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 10.4 °C 13.6 °C 18.4 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 26.0 °C 28.9 °C 32.3 °C
Annual rainfall 1,128 mm 1,402 mm 3,005 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 14 mm 40 mm 91 mm

It is not found anywhere that gets close to freezing. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 59 research-grade observations of Peperomia lanceolatopeltata that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 13 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Peperomia arifolia var. acutifolia C.DC.
  • Peperomia boomii Steyerm.
  • Peperomia bourgeaui C.DC.
  • Peperomia chambesyana Trel.
  • Peperomia ciliata Moritzi ex C.DC.
  • Peperomia hispidorhachis Yunck.
  • Peperomia molithrix Trel. & Standl.
  • Peperomia muelleri C.DC.
  • Peperomia puberula Baker
  • Peperomia tecticola C.DC.
  • Peperomia tecticola var. muricola Trel.
  • Peperomia tecticola var. tilirina Trel.
  • Peperomia tuberosa Sessé & Moc.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.