Peperomia unifoliata
A little-known Peperomia described by Ricardo Callejas and known from only a handful of herbarium specimens from the Pacific slope of the Talamanca and Los Santos region of San José province, Costa Rica, at about 850–1,750 m. Almost nothing about its growth habit or ecology is published in sources that could be reached, so the care given here is based on its collection sites in premontane forest and on how related Costa Rican peperomias grow. Treat it as a warm-to-intermediate, humid, shaded forest plant and check any plant sold under this name carefully.
Where it grows wild
All four GBIF records are preserved specimens from San José province: a stream ravine (Quebrada Ayarales) at Hacienda Tiquires in Cangrejal district, an unprotected site in the PirrÃs–Damas watershed between Bajo Venegas and Altos El Aguacate, and a 1932 collection near Santa MarÃa de Dota. None records the habitat or whether the plant grew on trees, rocks or the ground. These sites lie in premontane moist-to-wet forest on the Pacific slope.
Specimens were collected at 850 m, 950 m and about 1,740 m.
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