Aeschynanthus moningerae (Merr.) Chun
English names not checked: Wikidata's common names were not read for this page.
Photographs not checked
iNaturalist and GBIF media were skipped (not asked) when this page was built. Not asked, or not answered, is not "none": nothing here claims there is none. Why the site says it this way.At a glance
- Jan
- Feb
- Mar
- Apr
- May, shaded
- Jun
- Jul, shaded
- Aug, shaded
- Sep, shaded
- Oct, shaded
- Nov
- Dec
Cultivation
Grouped as an epiphyte, listed under the genus Aeschynanthus in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “epiphytic subshrub”.
Seasons
The rain rule reads a summer growing season: 70% of the median year's rain (1,740 mm of 2,371 mm) falls in May and July to October, warmer than the year (wet-season mean 24.0 °C against a yearly mean of 21.5 °C). Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: January to April and November.
Rain
2,371 mm in the median year at the habitat, 1,740 mm of it May and July to October. Wettest month October at 410 mm, driest month January at 19 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 2,020 mm to 2,654 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 2,391 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 2,371 mm here is the median year's, the twelve monthly medians added, which the rain rule reads. Habitat calendar, northern hemisphere; median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA.
Light
Open sky over the habitat: 20 to 34 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 18, the highest 90th-percentile month 38).
Warmth and air
Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range is 6.3 °C, the absolute minimum 2.1 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 34.2 °C. Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 12.4 °C in January (across the grid cells of the range 11.5 °C to 13.7 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 28.1 °C in June and July (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: 6.3 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range (NASA POWER).
Relative humidity at the habitat: 67 to 70% 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 +296 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.
Group. Listed under the genus Aeschynanthus in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “epiphytic subshrub”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.
Climate across the habitat
Habitat months, northern hemisphere
Mean daily high from 21 °C in Jan and Dec to 28 °C in May, Jun and Jul; mean nightly low from 12 °C in Jan to 23 °C in Jun and Jul. The cold quarter, Dec to Feb, is the three months around the coldest month's mean nightly low. 2,371 mm of rain in the median year (the twelve monthly medians added), the wettest month Oct. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 13 habitat cells. Over 44 years at a typical spot in the range (NASA POWER) the absolute minimum was 2.1 °C and the 99th-percentile day 34.2 °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 | 21 / 20–21 | 23 / 22–23 | 25 / 24–26 | 27 / 26–29 | 28 / 26–29 | 28 / 26–30 | 28 / 26–30 | 27 / 26–29 | 27 / 25–28 | 25 / 24–26 | 23 / 22–24 | 21 / 20–21 |
| Night °C | 12 / 12–14 | 15 / 14–16 | 17 / 16–18 | 20 / 19–21 | 22 / 20–23 | 23 / 21–24 | 23 / 21–24 | 22 / 20–23 | 21 / 19–22 | 19 / 18–20 | 16 / 15–17 | 13 / 12–14 |
| Rain mm | 19 / 14–31 | 33 / 24–40 | 49 / 39–54 | 134 / 88–151 | 277 / 217–300 | 233 / 209–277 | 290 / 237–317 | 377 / 328–407 | 386 / 339–435 | 410 / 271–527 | 123 / 75–175 | 40 / 24–65 |
| DLI | 21 / 19–26 | 24 / 22–28 | 30 / 28–34 | 34 / 33–38 | 33 / 31–35 | 32 / 31–35 | 33 / 32–36 | 30 / 29–31 | 28 / 27–29 | 25 / 24–28 | 22 / 20–27 | 20 / 18–25 |
| RH % | 68 / 65–72 | 69 / 66–72 | 67 / 64–70 | 68 / 64–71 | 69 / 66–71 | 69 / 65–70 | 68 / 65–70 | 69 / 66–71 | 70 / 68–71 | 70 / 67–73 | 69 / 65–72 | 68 / 65–71 |
How this section is made
Natural habitat
This species has no GBIF key of its own. Its records are GBIF's under the keys of the names Kew's World Checklist holds as this plant: 3825291 (Aeschynanthus moningerae (Merr.) Chun, 38 records), 7561617 (Trichosporum moningerae Merr., 0 records). No name was matched to GBIF; the keys are read from Kew's synonymy. How.
How this section is made
Photographs
Related
Similar habitat climate The 6 nearest by mean daily high, mean nightly low and rain, month by month. How.
Thrixspermum centipeda Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Dalton Holland Baptista Lanonia hainanensis Arecaceae Vanda concolor Orchidaceae Dendrobium aduncum Orchidaceae Other Aeschynanthus 50 in the reference
Aeschynanthus acuminatus Gesneriaceae Photo: CC BY, 如此甚好 Aeschynanthus albidus Gesneriaceae Aeschynanthus andersonii Gesneriaceae Aeschynanthus angustifolius Gesneriaceae Aeschynanthus arfakensis Gesneriaceae Aeschynanthus asclepioides Gesneriaceae Aeschynanthus batakiorum Gesneriaceae Aeschynanthus bracteatus Gesneriaceae Aeschynanthus burttii Gesneriaceae 
Aeschynanthus buxifolius Gesneriaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, peganum from Small Dole, England Aeschynanthus chiritoides Gesneriaceae Aeschynanthus chrysanthus Gesneriaceae all 51 ›Names & registers
Also known as Trichosporum moningerae. (WCVP, RBG Kew)
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 2026-10-22
kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Aeschynanthus moningerae (Merr.) Chun (plant_name_id 2623916), read from Kew's names filegbif.species not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedgbif.synonyms not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedgbif.vernacular not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedwcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04gbif.occurrences answeredasked 2026-10-22this species has no GBIF key of its own; its records are read under GBIF's keys for the names Kew's file holds as this plant, never by a name matched; GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 38 records of GBIF's key 3825291, Aeschynanthus moningerae (Merr.) Chun (Kew's file holds it as Aeschynanthus moningerae (Merr.) Chun (accepted)): the GBIF download; 0 records of GBIF's key 7561617, Trichosporum moningerae Merr. (Kew's file holds it as Trichosporum moningerae Merr. (synonym under Aeschynanthus moningerae (Merr.) Chun)): GBIF occurrence search APIclimate answeredasked 2026-10-22climate.extremes answeredasked 2026-10-22NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 19.00_110.000, lapse-corrected +296 m at 6.5 °C/kmwikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 377801-1, POWO 377801-1wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22inat.taxon not askedinat.photos.wild not askedinat.photos.cultivated not askedgbif.media not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedcommons nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshotEvery source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 3 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.