Peperomia rosea
A small epiphytic peperomia from the eastern Andes of central Peru, described by Trelease in 1936 from cloud forest near Muña in Huánuco at about 2100 m. It has slender red-tinged stems with whorls of tiny leaves about 1 cm long. Almost nothing is published on its habitat beyond the specimen labels, so treat it as a cool, humid montane-forest epiphyte.
Where it grows wild
Epiphyte in wet montane forest on the eastern slopes of the Peruvian Andes. The type collections come from cloud forest around Muña (Huánuco), and a 1940 collection west of Divisoria is labelled simply 'forest'. Like most small whorled-leaf peperomias it probably grows on mossy trunks and branches under a broken canopy.
Specimen labels give 1400 m (west of Divisoria) and 2100–2330 m (Muña, the type area). One collection from dry forest remnants near Tarapoto at 350 m is far outside this band and may be a misidentification.
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