Peperomia exilamenta
A rather large Peruvian peperomia described by Trelease in 1936 from near Tarapoto, with rigid, lance-shaped leaves usually in whorls of three and very slender spikes up to 12 cm long. It grows as an epiphyte or on the ground in warm, wet Amazonian and pre-montane forest at roughly 150–900 m. Very little is recorded about its habitat, so treat it as a warm-growing, humid lowland plant.
Where it grows wild
Wet tropical forest on the eastern side of the Peruvian Andes and in the Amazon lowlands: the type came from the Alto RÃo Huallaga near Tarapoto (San MartÃn), with further collections from Mishana on the RÃo Nanay near Iquitos (Loreto) and hunters' trails at Cusco Amazónico (Madre de Dios). It is described as epiphytic or terrestrial; the specimen labels give no further microhabitat detail.
The type collections were made at about 360–900 m (labels give 625–630 m); the Madre de Dios collection is at about 200 m and the Iquitos site is lowland at roughly 100–150 m.
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