Peperomia vitilevuensis
A Fijian Peperomia described by Yuncker and known from the montane forest of Viti Levu, especially the ridges around Nadarivatu and Mount Tomanivi (Mount Victoria) at about 1,100 m. Almost no information on its form or ecology is available beyond herbarium labels saying 'dense forest', so the care below is modelled on Fiji's cool, cloudy uplands and on other Pacific montane peperomias.
Where it grows wild
Specimens were collected in dense forest on ridges and summits in the Nadarivatu area of central Viti Levu, including Mount Nanggaranambuluta (Lomalangi) and the ridge from Mount Namama toward Mount Tomanivi, with one record from the Mount Gordon track in Serua. These uplands are covered in wet, often cloud-covered montane rainforest. The labels do not say whether it grows on trees, logs or the ground; an epiphytic or moss-dwelling habit is assumed from related Pacific species.
Labelled specimens come from about 1,085-1,145 m.
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