Peperomia arcuatispica
A Peruvian peperomia described by Trelease, known from Killip and Smith's 1929 collections at San Nicolás on the Pichis Trail in Junín, at about 1100 m in dense forest. The name refers to its arching flower spikes. Beyond this one locality nothing is published, so these are estimates for a warm, humid premontane forest plant.
Where it grows wild
Dense humid premontane forest along the old Pichis Trail in Junín, on the eastern slope of the Peruvian Andes. The label says only 'dense forest', so it likely grows in shade to dappled light; whether on the ground or on trees is not recorded.
Both specimens record about 1100 m at San Nicolás on the Pichis Trail.
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