Peperomia theodori
A little-known epiphytic peperomia described by Trelease in 1940, recorded in the subtropical forests of Bolivia and north-western Argentina, with an outlying record in Bahia, Brazil. It comes from a strongly seasonal region with a cool, dry winter, so it is likely hardier and more drought-tolerant than lowland tropical peperomias. Information on it is thin, and our pipeline found no usable wild records, so treat the targets as informed estimates.
Where it grows wild
An epiphyte in subtropical forest. The Argentine provinces (Jujuy, Salta, Tucumán) and most of the Bolivian departments listed lie in the Andean Yungas and adjoining seasonally dry forests, where small peperomias grow on mossy trunks, branches and rocks.
No elevation data were available. The Yungas forests of southern Bolivia and north-western Argentina run from roughly 400 to 2,500 m, so the plant probably experiences warm days and cool nights, especially in winter.
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