Peperomia rossii
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''Peperomia rossii'' is a species of plant in the family (biology), family Piperaceae. It is endemism, endemic to Christmas Island, an Australian territory in the northeastern Indian Ocean. Its specific name (botany), specific epithet honours the King of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Clunies-Ross family which established the Flying Fish Cove settlement on Christmas Island in 1888.Flora of Australia Online.


Description

''Peperomia rossii'' is an epiphyte, epiphytic herbaceous plant, herb growing to about 50–100 mm in height. It is glabrousness (botany), glabrous, with creeping stems, rooting at the nodes, with an erect flowering shoot. The leaf, leaves are usually opposite, elliptic, entire, and 10–30 mm long. It carries many flowers. The fruit is a round berry, less than 1 mm long.


Status and conservation

The plant is known only from the type collection made in 1898, and may be extinction, extinct.Cochrane (2002).


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* * * Peperomia, rossii Endemic flora of Christmas Island Plants described in 1900 Taxa named by Edmund Gilbert Baker {{Piperales-stub