Species of Peperomia (Piperaceae) from the Sana River Valley, Peru
Author
Pino Infante, Guillermo Eloy
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7175-4219
Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Museo de Historia Natural, Av. Arenales 1256, Jesus Maria, Lima 15072, Peru & Sociedad Peruana de Cactaceas y Suculentas, Av. 6 de Agosto 1146, Jesus Maria, Lima 15072, Peru
guillermo.pino@unmsm.edu.pe
Author
Samain, Marie-Stephanie
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7530-9024
Instituto de Ecologia, A. C., Centro Regional del Bajio, Red de Diversidad Biologica del Occidente Mexicano, Av. Lazaro Cardenas 253, 61600 Patzcuaro, Michoacan, Mexico
Author
Alban Castillo, Joaquina Adelaida
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4104-2912
Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Museo de Historia Natural, Av. Arenales 1256, Jesus Maria, Lima 15072, Peru
Author
Alomia Collazos, Luis Enrique Aaron
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3587-2055
Sociedad Peruana de Cactaceas y Suculentas, Av. 6 de Agosto 1146, Jesus Maria, Lima 15072, Peru
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PhytoKeys
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.225.99277
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.225.99277
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7.
Peperomia haematolepis Trel., Field. Mus. Pub. Bot. [Macbride] 13(2):52. 1936.
Fig. 5D
Type
.
Peru
, dept.
Junin
, prov. Chanchamayo, dist. San
Ramon
: Hacienda Chalhuapuquio,
Stevens 212
(
holotype
: ILL)
.
Distribution and habitat.
Plants are reported from Brazil, the Guyanas, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru from 1000 to 2000 m, epiphytic in montane forests shaded by the canopy. Most of the collections in Peru are from the Amazon Basin; this is the first report for a Pacific Ocean draining Andean valley.
Notes.
This species belongs to
Peperomia subg. Oxyrhynchum
(Dahlst.) Samain (
Frenzke et al. 2015
).
Specimen examined.
Peru, dept. Cajamarca, prov. Santa Cruz, dist. Catache
: Upper
Rio
Zana
Valley, ca. 5 km above Monteseco, on the path below the campsite, lower reaches of evergreen tropical montane forest, 1450 m, [
06°51'10.8"S
,
79°06'09.4"W
], 19 Mar 1986,
M.O. Dillon & A.
Sagastegui
4425
(US 3338748, F, GB 0167869, HUA 49003).