Peperomia aristeguietae
A little-known epiphytic peperomia endemic to Venezuela, described by Steyermark in 1971-72. It has wine-red, fleshy stems (creeping sterile shoots and ascending flowering ones), peltate leaves with seven radiating veins, and thin white flower spikes. The type was collected near RÃo Aguas Calientes at only 50-100 m, in wet lowland forest. Almost nothing about it is documented, so grow it as a warm, humid, shaded terrarium epiphyte.
Where it grows wild
It is described as an epiphyte of wet tropical, moist broadleaf forest. No field notes on its host trees, height in the canopy or microhabitat could be found. With creeping stems and peltate, fleshy leaves, it probably grows on mossy trunks and branches in shade to dappled light, like similar peperomias.
The type locality is at 50-100 m. The two GBIF records carry no elevation. One lies in the lowlands of BolÃvar state, and the other falls near Caracas, which may be a herbarium location rather than a collecting site.
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