Peperomia aerea
A delicate, creeping, rhizomatous epiphyte from the Chanchamayo Valley in central Peru, described by Trelease in 1936 from Carlos Schunke's collection at about 1800 m. It has thread-thin stems about 1 mm thick and small, leathery, lance-shaped leaves 1–3 cm long with rolled-under margins. Almost nothing else is recorded, so treat it as a cool-to-intermediate cloud-forest miniature for a mounted terrarium position.
Where it grows wild
Montane forest on the eastern Andean slope of JunÃn, Peru, in the Chanchamayo Valley. It is recorded as an epiphyte, creeping over bark; no further microhabitat is given.
The type was collected at about 1800 m. Our single mapped wild record carries no elevation.
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