Peperomia cachabiana
A glabrous, upright Peperomia with hard stems and elliptic-oblong leaves 4–5 cm long, often with reddish or purple nodes, stems and leaf undersides. Described from the Río Cachabí in Esmeraldas, Ecuador, it is now known from herbarium collections across the wet Andean slopes of Colombia and Ecuador, mostly as an epiphyte in premontane and lower montane rain and cloud forest. It is an intermediate-temperature plant for a humid terrarium.
Where it grows wild
Herbarium labels describe an epiphytic herb, occasionally terrestrial, in primary and secondary wet forest: premontane rain forest, lower montane cloud forest, oak (Quercus humboldtii) forest, forest edges and riverside vegetation. Collectors note it as occasional to rare.
Recorded from about 300 m to 2620 m, median about 1325 m (56 dated records); mostly premontane to lower montane forest between 1100 and 2500 m.
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