Peperomia carpapatana is a species of epiphyte in the genus Peperomia that is endemic in Peru. It grows on wet tropical biomes. Its conservation status is Threatened.
The type specimen were collected near Carpata, Peru at an altitude of 2700-3200 meters.
Peperomia carpapatana is a rather large, branching herb. Its stems are 2âÂÂ5 mm thick and densely covered, especially upward, with a matted indumentum of yellowish, interwoven hairs. The alternate leaves are round-ovate. The apex is rounded with a somewhat abrupt, bluntly acuminate tip, and the base is rounded or abruptly somewhat acute. They measure 2âÂÂ4 cm long and 2âÂÂ3.5 cm wide. The leaves are obscurely 3âÂÂ5-nerved, with appressed hairs on the underside and a concolorous, granular texture. They dry to an opaque finish. The appressed-pilose petiole is 5âÂÂ10 mm long. The spikes are slender, 50âÂÂ150 mm long, and clustered in the leaf axils with somewhat loosely inserted flowers. The peduncle is 10âÂÂ15 mm long and more or less appressed-pilose. The small, globose berries are tipped with a small point and have a subapical stigma.
It was described in 1936 by William Trelease in ', from specimens collected by Ellsworth Paine Killip & Dorothea Eliza Smith. It got its name from the location where the type specimen was collected.
It is endemic in Peru. It grows on a epiphyte environment and is a herb. It grows on wet tropical biomes.
This species is assessed as Threatened, in a preliminary report.