Peperomia ficta 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 La Merced, Peru at an altitude of 800-1300 meters.
Peperomia ficta is a robust, cespitose-creeping, succulent, epiphytic herb. The stem is 2âÂÂ4 mm thick, glabrous, and sulcate when dry. The leaves are typically in whorls of 3. They are round-elliptic to somewhat ovate or somewhat obovate, bluntly subacuminate, with an acute base, measuring 3âÂÂ4 cm long and 2âÂÂ3 cm wide. They are about 5-nerved, glabrous, and when dry are hard, revolute, and opaque. The petiole is 5 mm long and brown-puberulous. The terminal spikes, when young, are 30 mm long and 2 mm thick, borne on a 15 mm peduncle.
It was described in 1936 by William Trelease in ', from specimens collected by Ellsworth Paine Killip & Dorothea Eliza Smith. It got its epithet from the Latin , referring to the species that resembles or could be mistaken for another.
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.