Peperomia hamiltonianifolia
A very poorly known Peruvian Peperomia described by Trelease in 1936. GBIF holds a single herbarium record, collected by C. A. W. Sandeman in 1943 at Huacapistana in JunÃn, on the Tarma–San Ramón road down the eastern Andean slope. Nothing specific is published on its habitat, so this profile generalises from that locality and from other Andean-slope peperomias; treat it as a starting point.
Where it grows wild
No habitat note exists for the one known record. Huacapistana lies in the humid montane forest belt of the central Peruvian Andes, where most small peperomias grow on mossy trunks, rocks or damp banks in shade.
The specimen carries no elevation. Huacapistana is a mid-elevation village on the eastern Andean slope, roughly in the 1,500–2,000 m band, so cooler conditions than lowland Amazonia are likely.
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