Peperomia curtipes
A small forest-floor peperomia from the eastern Andean foothills of central Peru and north-western Bolivia, collected at 430–1715 m in the Chanchamayo valley, Cusco, the Yanachaga-Chemillén and Madidi parks. Labels describe it as terrestrial in dense forest. It suits a warm, shaded, humid terrarium. Little else is published about it.
Where it grows wild
Specimen labels describe it as terrestrial in dense forest and give dense forest at the Schunke hacienda above San Ramón, disturbed primary forest near Kepashiato, and seasonally humid to subhumid forest along the Río Mojos in Madidi. It is a plant of the shaded floor of premontane Andean-foothill forest.
Our records span 428–1715 m with a median of 1100 m, from Yanachaga-Chemillén at 428 m to Patiapo east of Apolo at 1715 m. Most lie in the 700–1550 m premontane zone.
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