Peperomia tenuissima
A delicate epiphytic peperomia of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, mainly known from Santa Catarina and Paraná. It grows on trees in forest from the coastal lowlands near Joinville and Morretes up to about 1300 m on the southern plateau. It comes from a subtropical climate, so it tolerates cooler winters than most tropical peperomias. It suits a humid, bright-shade terrarium or a mounted display.
Where it grows wild
Specimen labels describe it as an epiphyte in forest. The collections range from the Dona Francisca road near Joinville and the Grota Funda gorge near Morretes, both in coastal Atlantic rainforest, to Herciliópolis in the Santa Catarina highlands at 1315 m, which is mixed Araucaria forest. It grows as a small epiphyte on trunks and branches in humid, shaded forest.
Specimens range from near sea level (Morretes, Joinville) to 1315 m (Herciliópolis, Santa Catarina). Our two mapped wild points in western Santa Catarina carry no elevation but lie on the plateau at roughly 900–1300 m.
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