Peperomia glareosa
A little-known Peruvian peperomia described by Trelease in 1936 from Ynes Mexia's 1931 collection on the bank of the Río Santiago above the Pongo de Manseriche, in the Amazonian lowlands of northern Peru at about 200 m. The collector recorded it as an occasional perennial herb on tree trunks in dense forest, so treat it as a warm, humid lowland-rainforest epiphyte. Almost nothing else is published about it, so the targets below are inferred from that single well-documented locality.
Where it grows wild
Dense lowland rainforest on a riverbank, growing on tree trunks. The type locality, above the Pongo de Manseriche gorge on the Río Santiago (Loreto/Amazonas border), is hot, very wet Amazonian forest at the foot of the Andes. A second Peruvian record from the Aguaruna area of Amazonas (about 230 m, 'monte') fits the same lowland forest setting.
The type and its many duplicates record about 200 m; a later Amazonas record gives about 230 m. Our measured data file has no usable wild records for this name.
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