Peperomia obcordatifolia
A tiny creeping-to-ascending peperomia with hairless obovate leaves about 10 × 8 mm that are slightly notched at the tip. Richard Spruce collected it in the 1850s on Cerro de Campana near Tarapoto in San Martín, Peru. It grows on the ground or as an epiphyte in wet forest; beyond that nothing is recorded, so treat it as a warm, humid premontane terrarium plant.
Where it grows wild
Wet tropical forest on Cerro de Campana, a forested ridge above Tarapoto in the foothills of the eastern Andes. It is described as terrestrial or epiphytic, which in practice usually means mossy banks, rocks, logs and low trunks in shaded forest.
Spruce's specimen gives no elevation. The forested slopes of Cerro de Campana near Tarapoto lie at roughly 500–1400 m, so premontane forest is the likely setting.
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