Peperomia huanucoana
A small, branching Peperomia from the Andes of Huánuco in central Peru, with finely hairy stems and small elliptic leaves in whorls of three or four; its stolons carry different, tiny, thick, overlapping leaves. The only habitat notes place it in open rocky soil at about 1750 m, so it is best treated as a bright-growing, free-draining montane plant rather than a deep-shade terrarium creeper. Information is very thin.
Where it grows wild
Herbarium labels from a 1964 collection record it 'in open rocky soil' on the trail from Muña to Chaglla in Huánuco, on the humid eastern flank of the Andes. Kew lists it as an epiphytic herb of the wet tropical biome; it may grow on both mossy rock and trees.
The only recorded elevation in Peru is about 1750 m (Muña–Chaglla trail). The type locality is not recorded to altitude.
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