Peperomia juniniana
A medium-sized, branching Peperomia up to about 60 cm tall, with fleshy, often angular stems and alternate ovate leaves 4–10 cm long, sometimes purple underneath, and dense green spikes. Described from the Chanchamayo valley in Peru at about 1200 m, it is now known from the Andean slopes of Venezuela to Peru. Most specimens are labelled as terrestrial herbs in shaded, humid forest, and it suits a warm-to-intermediate terrarium.
Where it grows wild
Herbarium labels mostly describe a fleshy terrestrial herb in shade and humidity in primary forest, seasonal rain forest and along rivers, sometimes with translucent stems. Wikipedia describes it as epiphytic.
Recorded from about 300 m to 2375 m, median about 1800 m (39 records): lowland foothill forest in western Ecuador up to montane forest in Yanachaga-Chemillén, Peru.
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