Plate 1 figs. a–f · 3 observations
This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.
Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.
Native range 12 botanical countries
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| Bolivia | BOL | SOUTHERN AMERICA |
| Brazil Northeast | BZE | |
| Colombia | CLM | |
| Costa Rica | COS | |
| Ecuador | ECU | |
| French Guiana | FRG | |
| Guyana | GUY | |
| Nicaragua | NIC | |
| Panamá | PAN | |
| Peru | PER | |
| Trinidad-Tobago | TRT | |
| Venezuela | VEN |
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 30 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | 16.9 °C | 19.9 °C | 22.5 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 25.8 °C | 28.3 °C | 31.9 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 2,687 mm | 3,886 mm | 4,472 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 137 mm | 487 mm | 612 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 30 research-grade observations of Peperomia pernambucensis 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 11 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 aphanoneura C.DC.
- Peperomia atirroana Trel.
- Peperomia balsapuertana Trel.
- Peperomia brevicaulis Trel.
- Peperomia breviscapa Trel.
- Peperomia lechleriana Trel.
- Peperomia longifolia C.DC.
- Peperomia lopezensis Trel.
- Peperomia multiplex Lepr. ex C.DC.
- Peperomia paniculata Regel
- Peperomia subacaulis Trel.
Sourcesevery claim on this page
- World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
- iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
- 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.