Peperomia versteegii
Peperomia versteegii is a little-known Peperomia endemic to New Guinea, described by Casimir de Candolle in 1910. It is known from specimens that Gerard Versteeg collected in 1907 near Sabang in the lowlands of southern New Guinea. Nothing is published about its appearance in cultivation or its exact habitat, so the care below follows other lowland New Guinea rainforest Peperomias and is a best estimate.
Where it grows wild
It grows in wet tropical rainforest. No specimen notes on its microhabitat are available. Most small lowland New Guinea Peperomias grow on mossy trunks, logs or shaded banks, and this care assumes a similar niche.
The 1907 collections from the Sabang camp area on the Lorentz River lie in the southern New Guinea lowlands, probably below about 200 m. No altitudes are recorded.
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