Native records: 1 botanical areas
Hawaii
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An epiphyte of wet tropical climates. Native to United States Minor Outlying Islands, United States.
This entry carries only the classification and distribution data recorded in WCVP. A written account and images are not yet available.
Distribution areas
United States Minor Outlying Islands
- HawaiiNative
United States of America
- HawaiiNative
Climate of the native range
The Köppen climate classes found in the areas this plant is recorded as native to. It does not mean an entire area has that climate.
- Cfb Temperate, no dry season, warm summer
- Af Tropical, rainforest
- Aw Tropical, savannah
The same climate occurs in 113 areas worldwide, 112 of which have no record of this plant. See them on the map
A matching climate does not mean the plant can grow there. Range limits are also set by things other than climate — dispersal history, soils, competition. Source: Beck et al. (2023), CC BY 4.0 (observed period 1991–2020).
Other names
swamp peperomia
- Family
- Piperaceae
- Genus
- Peperomia
Other species in Peperomia
Sources
World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP), version 2026-06-04
United States Minor Outlying Islands · Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew · wcvp_distribution.csv
Open sourceWorld Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP), version 2026-06-04
United States of America · Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew · wcvp_distribution.csv
Open source