Peperomia pubirhachis
A little-known Andean Peperomia described by Yuncker from Cundinamarca, Colombia. It is recorded from wet, shady slopes in montane forest in Colombia and northern Ecuador, mostly at 1,500-2,100 m. Very little is published on it, so the targets below come from its herbarium labels and from typical cloud-forest Peperomia, and it suits a cool, humid terrarium.
Where it grows wild
Herbaceous plant of humid Andean forest ('bosque andino'), recorded on a 'wet shady slope' between Nono and Nanegal (Pichincha). Labels note red stems and sparsely villous leaves. Whether it grows mainly on the ground, on rocks or low on trunks is not stated; the records suggest a terrestrial or low lithophytic herb.
Labelled elevations are 1,275-2,100 m, most at 1,500-2,100 m. One Ecuadorian record from the lowland Rio Arajuno (Napo), in very humid tropical forest, is an outlier.
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