Peperomia yungasana
Peperomia yungasana is a small Peperomia described by C. de Candolle in 1914 from the Yungas of Bolivia. Specimens come mostly from humid upper montane cloud forest at about 2,150 to 3,600 m. It is a cool-growing species: a terrarium that stays cool, misty and never hot suits it far better than a warm tropical set-up.
Where it grows wild
Collected in upper montane cloud forest and 'ceja de montaña' (the cloud-forest edge near the treeline) on the eastern Andean slopes of La Paz department, and in the Amboró area of Santa Cruz. Labels say 'bosque alto montano húmedo, siempreverde' and 'bosque nuboso bajo'. The labels do not say whether it grows epiphytically or on mossy ground and rocks; high-Andean Peperomia commonly do both.
Most specimens are from 2,150 to 3,600 m, including 3,272 m in Madidi, 3,576 to 3,602 m in Apolobamba, 3,300 to 3,450 m near Zongo and Inquisivi, and 2,150 to 2,300 m in Amboró. One record at 226 m near Charazani, a town above 3,000 m, is almost certainly a data-entry error.
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