Peperomia hirticaulis
An obscure epiphytic peperomia from Java with hairy stems, opposite elliptic-lanceolate leaves about 2 cm long, and flower spikes up to 5 cm. It is known only from H. O. Forbes's 1880 collections, so it has almost no habitat record. Grow it as a warm, humid forest epiphyte, keeping in mind that these conditions are inferred.
Where it grows wild
Epiphyte in wet tropical forest on Java. The only collections are Forbes's from 1880, one of them georeferenced in East Java near the Lawu massif, and none records microhabitat. Forbes collected widely on the forested volcanoes of Java, so a submontane forest origin is plausible but not documented.
No elevation is recorded on any specimen. The georeferenced East Java point suggests forest on a volcano's lower or middle slopes, perhaps somewhere between 500 and 1500 m, but this is a guess.
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