Peperomia bellatula
A large, creeping Colombian Peperomia with thick stems about 4–5 mm across, lance-elliptic leaves 12–15 cm long and very long petioles up to 25 cm. It was described by Yuncker in 1950 from Oscar Haught's collection in Antioquia at about 150 m, in lowland wet forest, and there are no wild GBIF records, so growing advice is inferred from its hot, very wet lowland habitat.
Where it grows wild
Known from lowland wet tropical forest in Antioquia, Colombia, where it grows creeping over rock surfaces. Such plants usually sit on mossy boulders or rocky stream banks in shade under the forest canopy.
Known only from about 150 m at the type locality.
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