Peperomia dyscrita
Peperomia dyscrita is a small, hairless epiphytic herb from Costa Rica, described by Trelease in 1929 from a single Tonduz collection at Río Naranjo, with zigzag stems, narrow lance-shaped leaves and thread-like flower spikes. It is known essentially from its type, so almost nothing is recorded about its exact habitat; grow it like other small Costa Rican wet-forest epiphytic peperomias: warm, humid, bright shade and an airy, quick-draining mount or mix.
Where it grows wild
Recorded as an epiphyte on trees in the wet tropical forests of Costa Rica. The only specimen on GBIF is the holotype, which carries no locality detail beyond Río Naranjo, no habitat note and no elevation, so the microhabitat has to be inferred from the genus: small epiphytic peperomias of Costa Rica usually grow on mossy trunks and branches in humid forest, under a broken canopy.
Unknown. The type label gives no elevation. Several Costa Rican places are named Río Naranjo, ranging from Pacific lowlands to premontane slopes, so treat it as a warm lowland to premontane plant unless better data appear.
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