Peperomia tambitoensis
A small Colombian Peperomia known only from the Río Tambito valley and Cerro Munchique in the Western Cordillera of Cauca, at about 2,000–2,530 m. Recent collectors record it as a terrestrial herb in cloud forest, with reddish leaf stalks and flower stalks and greenish-white spikes. It needs cool, constantly humid, shaded conditions, like a highland terrarium.
Where it grows wild
It grows in very wet montane cloud forest on the western slope of Cerro Munchique, in the Río Tambito valley and along the trail to the observatory in Munchique National Park. A 2019–2021 inventory label records it as terrestrial. Epiphytes and mosses are abundant at this elevation.
Records run from 2,250 to 2,530 m, and the park's inventory gives an altitudinal range of 2,000–2,530 m.
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