The first specimens where collected in
Belize.
Peperomia toledoana is a delicate lithophytic herb that is entirely
hairless. The
tuber ellipsoid is 5 mm long and 3 mm wide that roots at the apex without
foliar scars. There are 4-7 leaves per plant. The
petioles are 2.5-3.8 cm long and slightly stripped with parallel lines. The blade of the leaf is widely ovate, 2–5 mm from the margin. 1.2-2.4 cm long, and 1.5-1.8 wide. The tip is rounded and obtuse. The base is slightly cordate, 5-6 palmatinerved. The innermost nerves diverge at an angle of 45°. The outmost nerves diverge at an angle of 80°. The tertiary nervation are abaxially evident, forming prominent areoles. These loops connected towards the margin form a marginal nerve that extens at least 2/3 of the lead. It is dense but minutely pellucid-dotted. The
idioblasts are dark browning to blackish in dry leaves, they are abundant and visible in both faces. It is green and membranous when living and dry. The
inflorescences have a common axis 5.5–12 cm baring 2-6
spadices. It has 1 terminal, the others are slight lateral, sub-erect, white when living and dry, each individual
spadix from the axil of a small deltoid bract are 0,8 mm in diameter. The spadices are slightly spaced by short internodes, 0.3-0.7 mm long. The
peduncle of each individual spadix is 2–4 mm long. The
rachis are 2–5 cm long and 0,3 tall, threadlike, white in dry material. The flowers are densely congested on rachis at
anthesis, widely spaced in fruit (0.7-1.2 mm). The
bracts are widely obovate. The bracts have a 0.6-1.1 mm diameter base and decurrent along the rachis. The
stamens have filaments that are 0.4 mm long. The anthers are 0.3 mm long. The
ovary is oblong, 0.7 x 0.01 mm,
sessile. The
stigma is at the tip. The
fruit is spherical, 0.4 mm in diameter, sessile and basally attached to the rachis. It looks similar to
P. claytoniodes. However, this species is a more fragile plant, with much thinner inflorescences. The leaves are 1.2-2.4 x 1.5-1.8 cm and the fruiting rachis are 2-2.4 x 0.3 mm whereas in
P. claytoniodes leaves are 3.5-8.7 x 7-4 and the fruiting rachis are 5-8 x 0.5 cm. The leaves in this species are black pellucid-dotted, whereas this is lacking in
P. clayoniodes. ==Taxonomy and Naming==