Peperomia uncatispica
A rarely recorded Peperomia described by Trelease from the eastern Andean slopes, known from a few herbarium specimens and observations in Ecuador (Tungurahua, Zamora-Chinchipe) and central Peru (JunÃn). It grows in wet montane and premontane forest at around 1,000–1,900 m. Almost nothing species-specific has been published, so grow it like other cloud-forest peperomias: shade, high humidity, mild temperatures and a very airy medium.
Where it grows wild
Specimen labels describe the habitats as 'dense forest', 'forest patch' and 'disturbed wet montane forest'. Whether it grows on trees, on mossy banks or on the ground is not recorded in the sources reviewed.
The only recorded elevation is 1,550 m above San Ramón in JunÃn, Peru. The Ecuadorian sites (Baños, El Pangui, south of Zamora) lie at roughly 1,000–1,900 m. Treat it as an intermediate, premontane-to-montane plant.
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