Peperomia serratirhachis
A small Brazilian Peperomia, about 20 cm tall, of the Cerrado region of Mato Grosso, Goiás and the Araguaia basin, where it grows on shaded, wet rock: waterfall walls, damp road banks and soil-filled crevices of forested limestone outcrops. The region has a long dry season, but the plant sits in permanently moist, shady microhabitats. Grow it shaded and warm, on a rocky, well-drained medium.
Where it grows wild
Herbarium labels describe it as a rock-dwelling (rupicolous) herb on the wall of a waterfall, on a damp road bank, in soil-filled crevices at the summit of a forested limestone outcrop, in semi-deciduous (mesophytic) forest, and in campo rupestre interspersed with cloud forest. One label notes a fully shaded site and a plant about 20 cm tall with erect leaves and green flower spikes.
Recorded elevations 354–800 m, median 800 m (4 records): 354 m at a waterfall in Serra de Ricardo Franco (Mato Grosso) and 600–800 m in the Serra dos Pirineus area of Goiás.
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