Peperomia itayana
A small terrestrial peperomia of western Amazonian lowland rainforest, described by Trelease in 1936 from the Río Itaya near Iquitos, Peru. Herbarium collections come from the Itaya, Tigre and Santiago rivers in Peru and from Yasuní in Ecuador, where collectors recorded it as a terrestrial herb with bright green leaves on clay soil in primary forest. It suits a warm, humid, shaded terrarium.
Where it grows wild
Primary humid tropical lowland forest. Labels from Yasuní and the Huaorani reserve in Ecuador describe a terrestrial herb with entirely bright green leaves, growing on yellowish clay soil beside the Río Tiputini. One Peruvian collection is from a forested ridge above the Río Santiago.
Lowland: about 100–110 m on the Río Itaya, 240–280 m at Yasuní and 325 m on the Río Santiago.
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