Adenia heterophylla (Blume) Koord.
Passifloraceae
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Summary
Adenia heterophylla, commonly known in Australia as the lacewing vine, is a climbing plant in the family Passifloraceae. It has a broad distribution spanning the equator, from the south eastern corner of China, through Indochina and Malesia, to northern Australia. In Australia it serves as a food plant for larvae of the glasswing, red lacewing and cruiser butterflies.
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About the genus · Adenia
Adenia is a genus of flowering plants in the passionflower family Passifloraceae. It contains about 100 species distributed in the Old World tropics and subtropics. The centers of diversity are in Madagascar, eastern and western tropical Africa, and Southeast Asia. More on Wikipedia ›
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At a glance
Also known as Adenia pinnatisecta P.H.Hô.
Cultivation
Grouped as a bulb, tuber or caudex by the genus Adenia, which is reliably one kind of plant (archetype table). The table holds no figure for this group, which spans too much for one minimum; the cold floor is the habitat's alone, and no prose comes from the table.
Its year Rain rule: a summer growing season, June to September in the northern hemisphere (December to March at the habitat, southern).
This species’ habitat figures, and what two fixed rules read from them.
The rain rule reads a summer growing season: 70% of the year's rain (1153 mm of 1474 mm) falls in December to March, warmer than the year (wet-season mean 27.7 °C against a yearly mean of 26.7 °C). Months are the habitat's, southern hemisphere; shifted six months for a northern-hemisphere collection: June to September.
Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the envelope cells: 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 gives a season to reverse. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.
Rain Habitat rain 1474 mm a year, wettest January at 335 mm, driest August at 3 mm (habitat calendar, southern hemisphere).
This species’ habitat figures, with their source.
1474 mm a year at the habitat, 1153 mm of it December to March. Wettest month January at 335 mm, driest August at 3 mm; 2 months under 5 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 1109 mm to 2726 mm (10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year) (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; habitat calendar, southern hemisphere).
CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the envelope cells. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.
Light Open sky over the habitat: 32 to 44 mol/m²/day.
This species’ habitat figures, with their source.
Open sky over the habitat: 32 to 44 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 26, the highest 90th-percentile month 47).
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.
Warmth and air Cold floor 17.2 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).
This species’ habitat figures, with their source.
Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell is 17.2 °C, the absolute minimum 14.0 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 35.0 °C. Monthly means: coldest night 20.6 °C in July (across the envelope cells 16.4 °C to 24.0 °C), warmest day 30.7 °C in November (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: 17.2 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell (NASA POWER).
NASA POWER daily minima and maxima 1981–2024 at the typical cell, lapse-corrected to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA. The cold floor is the figure named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.
Relative humidity at the habitat: 56 to 66% across the year (monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.
CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the envelope cells.
The figures the cards read from are in Climate below, and where they came from in Natural habitat.
Climate across the habitat
Figures by month
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day °C | 30 / 26–32 | 30 / 27–32 | 30 / 27–32 | 30 / 26–33 | 30 / 25–32 | 28 / 24–31 | 28 / 23–31 | 29 / 24–32 | 29 / 25–35 | 30 / 26–36 | 31 / 26–36 | 30 / 26–34 |
| Night °C | 25 / 20–27 | 25 / 20–27 | 25 / 21–27 | 24 / 21–26 | 23 / 19–26 | 21 / 17–25 | 21 / 16–24 | 21 / 17–24 | 23 / 19–25 | 24 / 20–26 | 25 / 21–27 | 25 / 20–27 |
| Rain mm | 335 / 59–440 | 310 / 66–425 | 270 / 82–371 | 121 / 53–256 | 29 / 11–231 | 7 / 1–215 | 4 / 2–232 | 3 / 0–231 | 10 / 3–216 | 43 / 15–207 | 104 / 45–194 | 238 / 91–317 |
| DLI | 35 / 29–40 | 34 / 31–37 | 36 / 32–38 | 36 / 31–38 | 34 / 28–36 | 32 / 26–34 | 34 / 27–35 | 38 / 30–39 | 42 / 31–44 | 44 / 30–47 | 43 / 30–46 | 38 / 29–42 |
| RH % | 65 / 62–68 | 66 / 63–69 | 64 / 60–68 | 61 / 54–68 | 58 / 50–68 | 56 / 48–68 | 57 / 47–68 | 58 / 47–68 | 61 / 49–67 | 61 / 52–67 | 61 / 56–67 | 63 / 59–68 |
Each figure is the median across the 665 grid cells holding the 971 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. Extremes and elevation were read at the typical cell 2047:6218 (-12.375, 130.925). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum 14.0 °C, 1st-percentile night 17.2 °C, 99th-percentile day 35.0 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Envelope: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 665 distinct grid cells holding the 971 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 2047:6218 (its coldest month's mean night nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell -12.50_130.625, lapse-corrected -2 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 8 m (cell mean).
Natural habitat
Photographs
Photographs: Thomas Mesaglio, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF (8).
Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.
Papers naming this species
Works whose title or abstract names Adenia heterophylla, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.
Related
Similar habitat climate the 6 species whose habitat climate is nearest this one's: mean day and night, month by month, and rain on a log scale, in calendar order, so a habitat with the same seasons six months out is far, not near. Nothing else counts: not range, not family.
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