Peperomia carpapatana
A little-known high-Andean peperomia that Trelease described from Carpapata, above Huacapistana in Junín, Peru, where it grew at a forest edge at about 2950 m. The other Peruvian collections come from the same elevation in the dry Marañón canyon above Balsas in Cajamarca, in the shade of shrubs on scree. It is best treated as a cool-growing, somewhat drought-tolerant plant, not a steamy terrarium subject. Almost nothing about its growth habit is published, so these targets are inferred.
Where it grows wild
It is known from a forest edge at the type locality (Carpapata, Junín) and from shrub shade on scree in the upper Marañón canyon (Cajamarca). The Marañón site is a seasonally dry inter-Andean valley, so the plant probably copes with bright light and periodic drought, sheltered by shrubs and rocks. It is not recorded whether it roots in soil, among rocks or on trees. The scree habitat suggests it grows on the ground or among rocks.
Every Peruvian specimen gives about 2950 m. A single Bolivian record, outside the range Kew accepts, is from 2120 m in subhumid Anadenanthera forest.
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