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Summary
Acampe pachyglossa is an orchid in the Epidendroideae subfamily. It is an epiphytic subshrub native to tropical Africa, ranging from southern Somalia to northeastern KwaZulu-Natal along Africa's east coast, and westward to Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. It is also native to Madagascar, the Comoros, the Seychelles and Aldabra, Mauritius, and Réunion in the western Indian Ocean.
Quoted from Wikipedia, "Acampe pachyglossa", CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cultivation
Seasons
The rain rule reads a sharp season: 70% of the median year's rain (993 mm of 1,298 mm) falls in December to March. The temperature curve is flat, 3.2 °C between the warmest and coldest month, so the growing-season rule does not infer a growing season from it. Months are the habitat's, southern hemisphere. The temperature curve moves under 4 °C between the warmest and coldest month, where the shift rule does not apply, so they are not shifted for a collection elsewhere.
Rain
1,298 mm in the median year at the habitat, 993 mm of it December to March. Wettest month January at 311 mm, driest month July at 13 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 866 mm to 2,049 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 1,423 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 1,298 mm here is the median year's, the twelve monthly medians added, which the rain rule reads. Habitat calendar, southern hemisphere; median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA.
Light
Open sky over the habitat: 31 to 43 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 24, the highest 90th-percentile month 45).
Warmth and air
Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range is 15.6 °C, the absolute minimum 12.5 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 34.9 °C. Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 18.5 °C in July (across the grid cells of the range 11.2 °C to 23.6 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 29.3 °C in November (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: 15.6 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range (NASA POWER).
Relative humidity at the habitat: 56 to 67% across the year (monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.
How this section is made
Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.
Seasons. Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the grid cells of the range: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve moves 4 °C or more and the habitat lies 10° or more from the equator. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.
Rain. CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the grid cells of the range. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.
Light. CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.
Temperature. NASA POWER daily minima and maxima over 44 years at a typical spot in the range, lapse-corrected +70 m to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range. The cold floor is the 1st-percentile night named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.
Humidity. CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the grid cells of the range.
Climate across the habitat
Habitat months, southern hemisphere
Mean daily high from 26 °C in Jun and Jul to 29 °C in Jan, Feb, Mar, Oct, Nov and Dec; mean nightly low from 19 °C in Jun, Jul and Aug to 23 °C in Jan, Feb, Mar and Dec. The cold quarter, Jun to Aug, is the three months around the coldest month's mean nightly low, centred on the 3 months in a row that tie for it. 1,298 mm of rain in the median year (the twelve monthly medians added), the wettest month Jan. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 133 habitat cells. Over 44 years at a typical spot in the range (NASA POWER) the absolute minimum was 12.5 °C and the 99th-percentile day 34.9 °C; neither is dated to a month. Beneath: daily light integral and relative humidity through the year, each on its own scale.
Figures by month
| Figure | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day °C | 29 / 27–30 | 29 / 27–30 | 29 / 27–31 | 28 / 26–31 | 28 / 24–31 | 26 / 22–30 | 26 / 22–29 | 27 / 24–30 | 28 / 25–32 | 29 / 26–33 | 29 / 26–33 | 29 / 27–32 |
| Night °C | 23 / 19–26 | 23 / 19–26 | 23 / 19–26 | 22 / 17–26 | 21 / 14–26 | 19 / 12–25 | 19 / 11–24 | 19 / 12–23 | 20 / 15–24 | 21 / 17–24 | 22 / 18–25 | 23 / 19–26 |
| Rain mm | 311 / 143–470 | 273 / 136–431 | 191 / 113–324 | 76 / 42–194 | 22 / 9–110 | 14 / 1–53 | 13 / 2–45 | 15 / 2–40 | 14 / 6–46 | 46 / 21–91 | 105 / 54–158 | 218 / 140–324 |
| DLI | 36 / 34–40 | 35 / 33–39 | 37 / 33–39 | 36 / 29–38 | 33 / 28–34 | 31 / 24–32 | 32 / 25–33 | 36 / 29–37 | 41 / 35–42 | 43 / 38–45 | 43 / 39–45 | 39 / 36–42 |
| RH % | 66 / 62–70 | 67 / 63–70 | 65 / 62–70 | 63 / 58–68 | 60 / 54–66 | 58 / 52–63 | 58 / 51–63 | 56 / 50–63 | 57 / 50–64 | 59 / 51–65 | 61 / 55–66 | 64 / 61–67 |
How this section is made
Natural habitat
How this section is made
Photographs
Photographs: (c) jeanjacquesgodon, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) katuchka, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) Augustin Soulard, some rights reserved (CC BY) (4).
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The record
Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →
Where this page came from built 2026-10-21
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