Peperomia urvilleana is a species of flowering plant in the family Piperaceae, native to the Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Norfolk Island, the southwestern Pacific and warmer areas of New Zealand (only Marlborough Sounds and Golden Bay / Mohua to the Heaphy in South Island). It is a succulent subshrub of the forest floor and occasionally grows as a low trunk epiphyte. Its Māori name is wharanui. References