Peperomia arborigaudens

The type specimen were collected near Yapas, Peru, at an altitude of 1,350–1,600 meters (4,430–5,250 ft).^[4]

Peperomia arborigaudens is a creeping, pendent epiphyte with slender, elongated stems covered in short, soft hairs. The leaves are alternate, ovate, and acuminate, with a very short and obscure peltate attachment. The leaf base is rounded to nearly truncate, and each blade measures 4 to 5.5 cm in length and 3 to 4 cm in width, with five to seven nerves. Young leaves are tomentulose on the underside, becoming sparsely pilose and glandular-granulose with age. When dried, the leaves are thin and take on a more or less rosy hue. The petioles are 3 to 5 mm long and loosely villous. The flower spikes are terminal and slender, reaching 90 mm in length, borne on a filiform, somewhat villous peduncle 2 cm long. The floral bracts are minute, rounded, and peltate.^[4]

It was described in 1936 by Truman G. Yuncker in Publications of the Field Museum of Natural History, Botanical Series 13 [es], from specimens collected by Ellsworth Paine Killip & Dorothea Eliza Smith.^[5] It got its name from the description of the type specimen. ^[4]

It is endemic in Peru.^[2] It grows on a epiphyte environment and is a herb.^[1][4] It grows on wet tropical biomes.^[1]

This species is assessed as Threatened, in a preliminary report.^[3]