Peperomia tillettii
A poorly known Peperomia described by Steyermark in the Flora de Venezuela in 1984. It is known from only a few collections, all from about 1,400 m in the Chama valley area of Mérida state in the Venezuelan Andes. The one label with habitat notes describes it as ground cover in deep shade, so treat it as a small shade-loving terrestrial Peperomia from lower-montane forest.
Where it grows wild
It is known from roadside and streamside forest remnants above the Chama valley between Estánquez and La Victoria, in Sucre district, Mérida. The only habitat note reads 'ground-cover in deep shade'. It likely grows among leaf litter and on moist banks under lower-montane forest, where the canopy shades out the drier valley conditions below.
The two labels with an elevation both give 1,400 m. Nothing else is known.
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