Peperomia glabrirhachis
A tiny, tufted epiphytic Peperomia from northern Peru, with stoloniferous stems 1–2 mm thick, rough little leaves about 10 × 5 mm in whorls of about four, and short smooth spikes on velvety stalks. It is known from the type collection near Huancabamba in Piura. Grow it as a miniature epiphyte on a mount in a cool-to-intermediate humid terrarium.
Where it grows wild
An epiphytic herb of moist montane forest near Huancabamba, in the northern Peruvian Andes. Its creeping, stolon-forming stems suggest it spreads over mossy bark.
No elevation is recorded. The forests around Huancabamba lie roughly between 1900 and 3000 m, so it is probably a montane plant, but this is uncertain.
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