Peperomia heyneana

Peperomia heyneana Miq.
Family: Piperaceae
Chinese: 蒙自草胡椒

Description: Perennial herbs, 5 to about 15 cm tall, erect or ascending, the stems glabrous or thinly pubescent, striate when dry. Leaves alternate throughout or alternate in the lower half only and opposite or ternately whorled above, 0.5-2 x 0.5-1.5 cm, elliptic, narrowly elliptic or obovate, the lower leaves often nearly orbicular; tapering to an obtuse or acute base, obtuse, rounded, or faintly short acuminate and sometimes feebly emarginate at the apex; slightly fleshy, not wrinkled and rather pellucid when dry, faintly darker but hardly blackish when pressed, glabrous except at the midrib a more acute angle than the subsequent veins; petiole 3-7 mm long, of lower leaves up to 15 mm long, glabrous or puberulous. Spike solitary, terminal, 1.5-3.5 cm long, 0.7-1.5 mm in diameter, with glabrous axis; peduncle 0.5 -1.6 cm long, always shorter than the spike, glabrous or sparsely pubescent; bracts about 0.3 mm in diameter. Flowers half immersed. Ovary with a fleshy, oblique, subapical stigma. Fruit about 0.7 mm long, globose-ellipsoidal, minutely stipitate, finely verrucose, without a pesudocupule

2 Published articles of  Peperomia heyneana
1. Medicine, e.g. for treating injuries from falls, comprises ginger, Laminum barbatum, Striga asiatica, Zanthoxylum nitidum, Peperomia heyneana, roots of Zanthoxylum dimorphophyllum and Aconitum brachypudum
Patent Number: CN101279006-A
Patent Assignee: YANG Z
Inventor(s): YANG Z.

2. Bioactive lignans from Peperomia heyneana
By: Zhang, Guo-Liang; Li, Na; Wang, Yun-Hua; et al.
JOURNAL OF NATURAL PRODUCTS  Volume: 70   Issue: 4   Pages: 662-664   Published: APR 2007