Peperomia tamayoi
A little-known peperomia that Trelease and Yuncker described in 1950 from Borburata in Venezuela's coastal mountains. It is known from only a handful of herbarium specimens, from evergreen rainforest on lower mountain slopes in northern Venezuela and western Ecuador. Almost nothing is recorded about its growth habit, so treat it like other small rainforest peperomias: warm, humid and shaded, in a very free-draining mix.
Where it grows wild
The specimen labels describe evergreen rainforest on slopes (Carabobo, about 425 m), the lower slopes along the RÃo Cocorotico in the Sierra de Aroa (Yaracuy), and a forested ridge crest in the Montañas de Ila in western Ecuador (about 600 m). None of the labels we saw says whether it grows as an epiphyte, on rocks or on the ground.
The recorded elevations are about 425 m in Venezuela and 600 m in Ecuador; the other records give no altitude.
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