Peperomia hunteriana P.I.Forst.

Erect, succulent herb to 10 cm high. Leaves usually in a whorl of 3, occasionally 4; lamina obovate to orbicular, to 15 mm long, 10 mm wide, densely hairy, secondary venation obscure; base cuneate to rounded; apex notched, obtuse or rounded. Spike terminal, solitary or up to 5 branches, to 5 cm long; peduncle 5–12 mm long; fertile axes 0.5–4.5 cm long. Flowers slightly sunken into axis, spaced 1–1.5 mm apart; bracts rounded, 0.4–0.5 mm long, 0.4–0.5 mm wide. Anthers c. 0.4 mm long, 0.3 mm wide. Ovary rounded, 0.2–0.3 mm long, 0.2–0.3 mm diam. Drupes not seen.

Grows as a lithophyte on exposed granite outcrops adjacent to or within simple, microphyll to notophyll vineforest at 1100–1520 m.