Peperomia tenuilimba
A little-known Peperomia described by Casimir de Candolle from Ernst Ule's 1901 collections on the Rio Juruá in western Amazonian Brazil. Herbarium labels place it on the forest floor and on clay banks in lowland rainforest, including seasonally flooded river margins, so it is best treated as a warm, deeply shaded, constantly humid terrarium plant. Almost nothing is published about it in cultivation, so the targets below are inferred from its lowland Amazonian habitat.
Where it grows wild
Herbarium labels describe it growing 'on the forest floor' and 'on soil' in lowland Amazonian rainforest, on clay ground in upland forest, and on floodable river banks and a spring-fed waterlogged bank. It is a small herb with thin, somewhat translucent, seven-veined elliptic-lanceolate leaves.
Lowland: labelled records sit at about 90 to 300 m in the Amazon basin and Paraná valley.
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