Peperomia rossii
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Peperomia rossii is a presumably extinct plant species of the genus Peperomia ( Peperomia ) from the pepper family(Piperaceae). She was on the Christmas Island endemic and after Clunies-Ross named family, the 1888 Flying Fish Cove , the first British settlement on Christmas Island founded.
description
It was an epiphytic herbaceous plant , with bare, creeping shoot axes that rooted at the nodes. The upright flowering shoots were 5 to 10 cm high. The whole-edged leaves were mostly opposite, elliptical with a pointed base and a rounded to slightly pointed upper end, hairless and covered with tiny glands. The leaf blade was usually 1 to 3 cm long. The petioles were 3 to 4 mm long.
The inflorescences consisted of single, simple, 2.5 to 4.5 cm long spikes that were either terminal or located in the upper leaf axils. The main axis of the inflorescences was fleshy. There were many, sessile flowers with circular, shield-shaped bracts that were 0.5 mm in diameter. The egg-shaped ovary was lost in the main axis. The seated scar was crooked. The almost spherical, tipped berries were less than 1 mm long.
status
Peperomia rossii is only known from the type specimens collected by Charles William Andrews in 1898 and which served as the basis for the first description by Alfred Barton Rendle in 1900 . When and why this plant disappeared is unclear.
literature
- Alexander S. George, Anthony E. Orchard: Flora of Australia. Volume 50 Oceanic Islands, 2nd Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra 1993, ISBN 0-644-14446-7 , Peperomia rossii online .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alfred Barton Rendle: Piperaceae . In: Charles W. Andrews: Monograph of Christmas Island (Indian Ocean) with Descriptions of the Fauna and Flora by Numerous Contributors . British Museum, London 1900, p. 186.
