Peperomia thollonii
A small, little-known Peperomia from the wet forests of Gabon, the Republic of the Congo and possibly Cameroon. It spreads from a prostrate base and sends up slender stems about 13 cm tall, with elliptic-lanceolate leaves. There are no wild records with coordinates, so grow it as a warm, shade-loving plant of humid Central African lowland and hill forest.
Where it grows wild
It grows in wet tropical moist broadleaf forest. The first collections were along the Tchimbélé River, in the Crystal Mountains of Gabon, and in the Mayombe forest. Its creeping base and thin, upright stems suggest it grows on moist forest floor, mossy rocks or logs, but no source says so directly.
No elevation is recorded. The type areas, the Crystal Mountains around Tchimbélé and the Mayombe hills, are mostly lowland to low-montane forest, very roughly 100–800 m.
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