Peperomia pleiomorpha
A small, creeping and ascending peperomia described by Trelease in 1936 from the eastern Andean foothills of Peru, with minute round leaves on its runners and larger elliptic leaves on the flowering shoots, which is where the name 'many-formed' comes from. Specimens come from dense, humid lowland and premontane forest at roughly 375–700 m in JunÃn and San MartÃn, Peru, and Napo, Ecuador, so treat it as a warm, humid rainforest plant. Almost nothing is published about its habitat beyond label notes, so the targets here are inferred.
Where it grows wild
Dense humid forest in the eastern foothills of the Andes: Puerto Bermúdez on the Pichis river in JunÃn ('dense forest'), the mouth of the RÃo Mishollo on the Huallaga in San MartÃn, and humid premontane forest near Archidona in Napo, Ecuador. It grows as a small epiphytic or ground-level herb that spreads by thin runners, typically on mossy trunks, logs and banks under a closed canopy.
Specimen labels give about 375–400 m at Puerto Bermúdez; the San MartÃn and Napo sites lie roughly between 400 and 700 m. Our measured dataset had no usable wild records.
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