Peperomia variifolia
An epiphytic Peruvian Peperomia with very short-stalked leaves, described by Casimir de Candolle in 1869. It is known almost only from Eduard Poeppig's early 19th-century collections in Peru. No modern field notes or photographs of wild plants were found, so everything below about habitat and care is inferred from the genus and the probable collecting area, and should be treated as a starting point.
Where it grows wild
It is recorded as an epiphyte. Poeppig collected mainly in the humid forests of central Peru's eastern slopes and adjacent lowlands, so it most likely grows on mossy trunks and branches in wet tropical forest. The specimens give no habitat detail.
No elevation is recorded on any specimen. The Geneva isotype is georeferenced to Iparía in Ucayali, in lowland Amazonia at about 200–300 m, but that placement may be approximate.
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