Peperomia aguabonitensis
A little-known Colombian peperomia described by Yuncker in 1950 from Aguabonita in the Moscopán region, on the eastern slope of the Cordillera Central. The few specimens come from montane forest at about 2100–2300 m in Cauca and Huila, so treat it as a cool, humid cloud-forest plant. There is almost no published habitat or growth-habit information, so these targets are inferred from its elevation and region.
Where it grows wild
Montane forest on the eastern slope of the Cordillera Central in southern Colombia (Moscopán, upper Río San José valley at Aguabonita, and near La Palmira in Huila). The specimen labels give no microhabitat, so it is not known whether it grows on the ground, on rocks or as an epiphyte; montane peperomias of this region commonly grow on mossy trunks, banks and rocks under a broken canopy.
Herbarium specimens record about 2100 m (La Palmira, Huila) and 2280 m (Aguabonita, Cauca). Our measured wild records carry no elevation.
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