Peperomia veneciana
A very poorly known peperomia described by Trelease and Yuncker, known from only four herbarium collections made in 1930–1931 in Cundinamarca, Colombia: around Venecia and Pandi on the Sumapaz slopes southwest of Bogotá, and in shaded woods at Chapinero in Bogotá. Nothing about its habit or ecology has been published beyond the note of shaded woodland, so the targets here are inferred from those localities: a shade-loving plant of humid Andean forest with mild days and cool nights.
Where it grows wild
One label records it in shaded woods ("montes a la sombra"); the others give only place names. The collecting areas are humid premontane and montane forest on the western slope of the Eastern Cordillera. Whether it grows on the ground, on rocks or on trunks is not recorded.
No elevations are recorded on the specimens. The towns of Pandi and Venecia lie at roughly 1000–1600 m, while Chapinero on the edge of Bogotá is above 2500 m, so the species may span a wide elevation band or the localities may be imprecise.
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