focus on... 2009 Peperomia Expedition Peru
The Expedition to Peru is the last one, after those to Mexico and Bolivia, to provide study material for the large research project on the phylogeny of this genus, currently carried out as a joint project of Dresden Technical University (Germany) and Ghent University (Belgium).  

focus on... Recently described new Peperomia species
It appears that the extending scientific interest in the genus Peperomia during the last decade is resulting in the publication of a substantially higher number of new taxa.  

focus on... Peperomia at Systematics 2008 conference
The international biological conference Systematics 2008 was held in Göttingen (Germany) 7-11 April. Although the event covered botanical as well as zoological subjects, the genus Peperomia got special attention…  

focus on... Phylogeny of the genus Peperomia
The first molecular phylogeny of this giant genus based on a representative sampling has been published in Plant Biology 8 (2006): 93-102.  

focus on... Peperomia caperata cultivars
The many cultivars of Peperomia caperata are regularly seen in plant shops all over the world. They are characterized by their wrinkled leaves.