Airampoa ayrampo (Haenke) Doweld
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12 photographs › At a glance
- Jan, under 5 mm of rain
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- Jun, shaded
- Jul, shaded
- Aug, shaded
- Sep, shaded
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Summary
Airampoa ayrampo (synomym Airampoa soehrensii) is a species of Airampoa found in northwestern Argentina, Bolivia, northern Chile, and Peru.
Quoted from Wikipedia, "Airampoa ayrampo", CC BY-SA 4.0.
About the genus · Airampoa
Airampoa is a South American genus of the cactus family (Cactaceae).
Quoted from Wikipedia, "Airampoa", CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cultivation
Grouped as a cactus or succulent, listed under the family Cactaceae in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “succulent subshrub”.
Seasons
The rain rule reads a summer growing season: 70% of the median year's rain (567 mm of 706 mm) falls in December to March, warmer than the year (wet-season mean 10.0 °C against a yearly mean of 8.3 °C). Months are the habitat's, southern hemisphere; shifted six months for a northern-hemisphere collection: June to September.
Rain
706 mm in the median year at the habitat, 567 mm of it December to March. Wettest month January at 186 mm, driest month July at 4 mm; 1 month under 5 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 376 mm to 1,267 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 716 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 706 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: 33 to 52 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 27, the highest 90th-percentile month 57).
Warmth and air
Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low -1.6 °C in July (across the grid cells of the range -4.7 °C to 1.2 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 16.4 °C in November (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: none read. The nearest figure is -1.6 °C, the coldest month's mean nightly low, July, in the median year (CHELSA); a month's mean of its nightly lows is warmer than the nights a floor is read from. The daily extremes were read at a weather cell whose ground is too far above or below the typical spot to correct for, and are not used.
Relative humidity at the habitat: 40 to 63% 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. CHELSA monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range. No cold floor is read without a daily extremes series; the coldest month's mean nightly low named in its sentence is not one. 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 family Cactaceae in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “succulent 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, southern hemisphere
Mean daily high from 12 °C in Jun and Jul to 16 °C in Oct, Nov and Dec; mean nightly low from -2 °C in Jul to 5 °C in Jan, Feb and Dec. The cold quarter, Jun to Aug, is the three months around the coldest month's mean nightly low. 706 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 128 habitat cells. 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 | 15 / 12–18 | 15 / 12–18 | 15 / 12–18 | 14 / 11–18 | 13 / 11–16 | 12 / 10–15 | 12 / 10–15 | 14 / 11–16 | 15 / 12–18 | 16 / 14–19 | 16 / 14–19 | 16 / 13–19 |
| Night °C | 5 / 3–8 | 5 / 2–8 | 4 / 2–8 | 2 / -1–6 | 0 / -3–3 | -1 / -5–2 | -2 / -5–1 | -1 / -4–2 | 0 / -3–4 | 2 / -1–6 | 4 / 1–7 | 5 / 2–8 |
| Rain mm | 186 / 117–319 | 153 / 94–246 | 111 / 57–179 | 28 / 9–61 | 7 / 2–16 | 5 / 1–11 | 4 / 1–9 | 8 / 2–21 | 12 / 3–42 | 25 / 7–68 | 50 / 18–102 | 117 / 50–203 |
| DLI | 44 / 40–51 | 43 / 39–49 | 41 / 35–46 | 40 / 33–43 | 36 / 29–39 | 33 / 27–36 | 35 / 29–38 | 40 / 34–43 | 46 / 40–49 | 50 / 43–55 | 52 / 44–57 | 48 / 43–55 |
| RH % | 63 / 56–67 | 63 / 56–67 | 62 / 54–66 | 55 / 45–62 | 45 / 36–56 | 40 / 33–51 | 40 / 32–50 | 44 / 34–51 | 47 / 36–53 | 50 / 38–58 | 53 / 43–61 | 58 / 48–64 |
The daily extremes were not used: the correction for elevation, +1011 m, is beyond the 1,000 m either way that a lapse rate is applied over, so the weather cell's ground is other terrain than the typical spot's. So no cold floor is read for this species, and the coldest month's mean nightly low is not taken as one. What that cell gave, so corrected, over 44 years: absolute minimum -18.6 °C, 1st-percentile night -10.0 °C.
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: 3955812 (Airampoa ayrampo (Haenke) Doweld, 234 records), 5621443 (Opuntia ayrampo (Haenke) Mottram, 0 records), 7640919 (Cactus ayrampo Haenke, 0 records). No name was matched to GBIF; the keys are read from Kew's synonymy. How.
How this section is made
Photographs
Photographs: cstobie, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Carl Howard-Morton, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons; Nicolas Olejnik, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Frank Vincentz, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2).
Related
Similar habitat climate The 6 nearest by mean daily high, mean nightly low and rain, month by month. How.
Oreocereus trollii Cactaceae Photo: CC BY, Rocío Esmeralda Pose
Nicotiana undulata Solanaceae Photo: CC BY, Humber Alberto
Polylepis tomentella Rosaceae Photo: CC BY, Mirko Duimich
Aylostera pygmaea Cactaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Fabien Anthelme
Cumulopuntia chichensis Cactaceae Photo: CC BY, Rosario Douglas
Mutisia orbignyana Asteraceae Photo: CC BY, Andrés Romero BravoOther Airampoa 2 in the reference
Airampoa corrugata Cactaceae Photo: CC BY, Agustín Zarco
Airampoa erectoclada Cactaceae Photo: CC0, author not stated Names & registers
Also known as Tunilla soehrensii; Tunilla minuscula; Tephrocactus silvestris; Platyopuntia soehrensii var. grandiflora; Airampoa soehrensii and 30 more. (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
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