Peperomia rhombeaRuiz & Pav.

Peruvian peperomia

WFO wfo-0000477805 Accepted WFO 2026-06 6 photographs CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–f · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 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.

Peperomia rhombea, photographed by Edson Luis Fabro Gasperin
fig. a Edson Luis Fabro Gasperin, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2019-12-21 / obs. 58350642
Peperomia rhombea, photographed by Edson Luis Fabro Gasperin
fig. b Edson Luis Fabro Gasperin, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 58303044
Peperomia rhombea, photographed by Edson Luis Fabro Gasperin
fig. c Edson Luis Fabro Gasperin, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 58303065
Peperomia rhombea, photographed by Edson Luis Fabro Gasperin
fig. d Edson Luis Fabro Gasperin, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 58350666
Peperomia rhombea, photographed by Edson Luis Fabro Gasperin
fig. e Edson Luis Fabro Gasperin, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 58303086
Peperomia rhombea, photographed by Edson Luis Fabro Gasperin
fig. f Edson Luis Fabro Gasperin, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 58350687

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Native range 18 botanical countries

Regions where Peperomia rhombea is native: Mexico Southeast, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Peru, Puerto Rico, Venezuela Mexico SoutheastBelizeBoliviaBrazil NorthBrazil NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastColombiaCosta RicaCubaDominican RepublicHaitiHondurasJamaicaNicaraguaPeruPuerto RicoVenezuela
Native distribution of Peperomia rhombea, 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
Belize BLZ SOUTHERN AMERICA
Bolivia BOL
Brazil North BZN
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Cuba CUB
Dominican Republic DOM
Haiti HAI
Honduras HON
Jamaica JAM
Nicaragua NIC
Peru PER
Puerto Rico PUE
Venezuela VEN
Mexico Southeast MXT NORTHERN AMERICA

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.

Also published as 12 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 aguacalientis Trel.
  • Peperomia filici-decorans Trel.
  • Peperomia myrtillus Miq.
  • Peperomia pseudoboliviensis Trel.
  • Peperomia reflexa f. peruviana Miq.
  • Peperomia regnelliana Miq.
  • Peperomia rubioides Kunth
  • Peperomia rubioides f. minor Miq.
  • Peperomia rubioides var. minor (Miq.) Miq.
  • Peperomia setosispica Trel.
  • Piper rhombeum (Ruiz & Pav.) Vahl
  • Piper rubioides Poir.

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.