Peperomia choritana
An Ecuadorian Peperomia described by Trelease in 1926 with no georeferenced wild records in GBIF. Care here is inferred from the genus in humid Andean-foothill forest, so treat it as a shade-loving, constantly humid terrarium plant and adjust to how your plant responds.
Where it grows wild
No habitat notes were reachable. Small Ecuadorian Peperomia typically grow on mossy trunks, logs or wet banks in humid forest; the growth form is assumed, not documented.
Unknown; the climate uses one representative site on the eastern Andean slope at about 1200 m.
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