Peperomia obruenda
A small, erect, glabrous Peperomia that Trelease described in 1936 from a single collection by F. L. Stevens at Hacienda Chalhuapuquio near Tarma, JunÃn, central Peru. Its obovate leaves are 3.5–4.5 cm long, papery and paler beneath, and its slender spikes are about 6 cm long. Almost nothing about its habitat was recorded, so any care advice is inferred.
Where it grows wild
No habitat was recorded. The same hacienda yielded Passiflora, Bomarea and Adiantum collections, which points to humid montane forest and forest edge on the eastern Andean slope below Tarma. Trelease describes it as erect, so it may grow on the ground, on mossy banks or low on trunks.
No elevation is recorded for the type. Other specimens from Hacienda Chalhuapuquio give conflicting information, including a 700 m figure and coordinates that do not match the Tarma area, so the elevation is unknown. Mid-montane forest (roughly 1500–2500 m) is a guess.
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