Peperomia sagasteguii

Description. Perennial, semi-succulent, terrestrial, epiphytic, or saxicolous herb, living in the shade of other plants, 10 - 30 cm tall, up to 45 cm tall when flowering. Roots fibrous, around 1 mm diam., transparent-reddish, 2 - 6 cm long, emerging from basal nodes and stolons. Stem stoloniferous at the base, then assurgent, thicker below, straight erect, terete, dark red to olive green, 0.4 - 0.6 cm diam. at the base, gradually tapering to 1.4 - 1.6 mm at the apex, readily branched alternately, internodes 2.5 - 3 cm at the base gradually descending to 0.8 - 1 cm towards the apex, surface crisp-pubescent, trichomes whitish, around 0.5 mm long at base, slightly shorter upwards. Branches 5 - 9, irregularly alternate, sometimes pseudo-opposite below, emerging almost horizontally mainly from the distal half, 7 - 15 cm long in the vegetative state. Leaves alternate, elliptic, elliptic obovate to subrotundate; petiole terete, same surface and color as stem, 0.7 - 1.7 cm long, 1.8 - 2 mm wide, slightly channeled above; lamina slightly convex to flat, 2.5 - 4 cm long, 1 - 2 mm thick, 1.6 - 2.8 cm wide, apex acute to attenuately subacuminate, base cuneate to sub truncate; adaxially bright glossy green, convex, 3 - palmatinerved, nerves depressed; margin entire; abaxially pale green to pinkish, 3 - palmatinerved, nerves elevated. Young leaves can be pinkish adaxially. Both sides are puberulous. Inflorescence terminal in an umbel of 1 - 3 spadices and sometimes 1 - 2 individual spadices from upper leaf nodes, umbel with 1 - 3 basal bracts at the base and lateral spadices with opposite bracts at base similar to leaves but much smaller; peduncle terete, light green, 4 - 6 mm long, 1.2 - 1.8 mm diam.; rachis 4 - 15 (- 20) cm long, 1.5 - 1.7 mm diam., light green. Floral bracts broadly oval to round, light green, flat, almost inconspicuous, 0.35 - 0.45 x 0.30 - 0.40 mm. Stamens, filaments short, anthers white ovoid, 0.3 x 0.4 mm. Fruita globose berry, borne on a 1 - 1.5 mm long, 0.25 - 0.3 mm diam. narrow-conical transparent pedicel; 0.7 - 0.8 mm long, 0.6 - 0.7 mm diam., brown, covered in white 0.05 mm long whitish papillae up to distal third of fruit, style conical, light brown, 0.15 - 0.2 mm long, 0.20 - 0.25 mm diam.