Peperomia vueltasana


Peperomia vueltasana is a herb and epiphyte species of Peperomia plant native to Nicaragua to Panama. It primarily grows in wet tropical biomes.

Etymology

vueltasana came from Las Vueltas, in Tucurrique district, Costa Rica.

Description

It is a moderately small, assurgent, glabrous herb. It has a stem of 2 mm rooting from the lower nodes. Leaves are alternate, lanceolate, or oblanceolate that are acute at both ends or somewhat mucronate, the lower end was reduced and bluntly obovate. Some specimens can be found in the Caribbean slope of Costa Rica.