Peperomia crinigera
A small, branched, ascending Peperomia from the high cloud forests of Junín, Peru, with stiff-hairy stems 2–3 mm thick and tiny leaves 10–16 mm long in whorls of about five. It is known from very few collections, and the only georeferenced specimen was taken at about 2950 m above Huacapistana. It is a cool-growing plant best suited to a chilled highland terrarium.
Where it grows wild
It is recorded as an epiphyte in wet montane forest on the eastern Andean slope of central Peru. No detailed habitat notes are available.
The only dated specimen is from about 2950 m (Carpapata above Huacapistana, 1929); the type came from near Palca, also in Junín. Treat it as an upper-montane cloud-forest plant.
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