Peperomia yanacachiana
A Peperomia described by Yuncker in 1955 from near Yanacachi in the Bolivian Yungas. It is endemic to the cloud forests of La Paz department at about 2100–2800 m. Treat it as a cool, humid cloud-forest plant: mild days, cool nights, bright shade and constant moisture in the air.
Where it grows wild
Specimen labels describe very wet forest in the Zongo valley, lower cloud forest with tree ferns and abundant epiphytes between Chuspipata and Yolosa, steep cliffs with waterfalls, and moist forest below the Chusquea bamboo belt. The labels do not say whether it grows on trees, rocks or the ground; many Andean cloud-forest Peperomias grow on mossy trunks, rocks and banks.
Labels give 2100–2800 m; the type is from about 2100 m near Yanacachi.
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