Peperomia gleicheniiformis
A tiny, stoloniferous epiphytic Peperomia with thread-like stems barely 1 mm thick that fork repeatedly, like a Gleichenia fern, and carry small three-veined leaves 1–2 cm long. It grows in wet forest from Costa Rica and Panama through Colombia, with records also from Ecuador and Peru, mostly between about 450 and 2000 m. A good candidate for a humid terrarium mount.
Where it grows wild
Epiphytic in wet tropical forest. Colombian records come from gallery and riparian forest, dense tall forest and forest fragments in the eastern Andean foothills of Cundinamarca and Boyacá, and from well-conserved forest with abundant epiphytes in the SerranÃa de La Macarena. Ecuadorian collections come from cloud forest along rivers near Mindo and Maquipucuna and from lower montane evergreen forest in the Cordillera del Cóndor.
Our wild records span 350–2703 m with a median of 593 m (41 records). The median is pulled low by a 2019 survey near 450–600 m in the eastern foothills; Ecuadorian and Peruvian specimens come from 1200–1960 m.
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