Peperomia cuspidilimba
An erect, entirely hairless Peperomia known only from Ecuador, with leaves in whorls of three on long stalks, elliptic-lanceolate blades 3.5–6 cm long with a drawn-out tip, and dense spikes up to 11.5 cm. It grows on the ground or on trees in wet forest, and very little is known about it in the wild. Grow it as a humid, warm-to-intermediate terrarium plant.
Where it grows wild
A terrestrial or epiphytic herb of wet tropical forest. The type material came from forest near Tungurahua volcano, and the two GBIF records sit on the eastern Andean slope in Napo and near Baños.
No elevation is recorded. The two record sites on the eastern Andean slope suggest roughly 1000–2000 m, but this is uncertain.
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