Allophylus cobbe (L.) Forsyth f.
Cited as Kew's World Checklist cites it, Allophylus cobbe (L.) Forsyth f.: GBIF's backbone key for this page carries the name with another author, (L.) Forsyth fil.
85 photographs › At a glance
- Jan, under 5 mm of rain
- Feb, under 5 mm of rain
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- Jun, shaded
- Jul, shaded
- Aug, shaded
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Summary
Allophylus cobbe, commonly known as titberry or Indian allophylus, is a pantropical shrub in the family Sapindaceae with many uses in traditional medicine. It has a highly variable morphology throughout its range and may prove to be more than one species.
Quoted from Wikipedia, "Allophylus cobbe", CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cultivation
Seasons
The rain rule reads a rainy season with no name: 70% of the median year's rain (2,597 mm of 3,399 mm) falls in June to August, whose mean temperature, 23.6 °C, is within half a degree of the year's, 24.0 °C, so it is neither the cooler nor the warmer part of the year. Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: December to February.
Rain
3,399 mm in the median year at the habitat, 2,597 mm of it June to August. Wettest month July at 1,123 mm, driest month February at 1 mm; 2 months under 5 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 1,624 mm to 4,707 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 3,541 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 3,399 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: 21 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 17, the highest 90th-percentile month 46).
Warmth and air
Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range is 14.0 °C, the absolute minimum 9.3 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 43.5 °C. Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 16.7 °C in January (across the grid cells of the range 13.0 °C to 22.1 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 32.6 °C in April (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: 14.0 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range (NASA POWER).
Relative humidity at the habitat: 52 to 78% 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 -210 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, northern hemisphere
Mean daily high from 25 °C in Jul and Aug to 33 °C in Apr; mean nightly low from 17 °C in Jan and Feb to 22 °C in May and Jun. The cold quarter, Dec to Feb, is the three months around the coldest month's mean nightly low, centred on the 2 months in a row that tie for it. 3,399 mm of rain in the median year (the twelve monthly medians added), the wettest month Jul. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 75 habitat cells. Over 44 years at a typical spot in the range (NASA POWER) the absolute minimum was 9.3 °C and the 99th-percentile day 43.5 °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 | 28 / 26–32 | 30 / 28–33 | 32 / 29–34 | 33 / 29–34 | 31 / 28–33 | 27 / 25–30 | 25 / 23–29 | 25 / 23–29 | 26 / 25–29 | 28 / 26–31 | 28 / 25–32 | 28 / 25–32 |
| Night °C | 17 / 13–22 | 17 / 14–22 | 19 / 17–24 | 21 / 19–25 | 22 / 20–26 | 22 / 20–25 | 21 / 19–25 | 21 / 19–25 | 20 / 19–24 | 20 / 18–24 | 19 / 16–24 | 18 / 13–23 |
| Rain mm | 2 / 1–123 | 1 / 0–73 | 9 / 2–143 | 27 / 7–219 | 108 / 55–282 | 683 / 128–1088 | 1123 / 147–1730 | 791 / 153–1147 | 388 / 186–499 | 209 / 151–356 | 49 / 28–280 | 9 / 5–206 |
| DLI | 35 / 31–37 | 40 / 36–41 | 43 / 39–44 | 43 / 36–46 | 39 / 31–43 | 26 / 22–33 | 21 / 17–32 | 23 / 18–33 | 28 / 25–35 | 32 / 28–33 | 32 / 28–34 | 33 / 28–34 |
| RH % | 52 / 47–66 | 52 / 44–64 | 56 / 44–64 | 60 / 50–67 | 63 / 60–71 | 74 / 65–80 | 78 / 64–85 | 76 / 64–84 | 73 / 65–77 | 64 / 57–71 | 56 / 50–67 | 52 / 48–67 |
How this section is made
Natural habitat
How this section is made
Photographs
Photographs: (c) Steve Fitzgerald, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) (3); (c) Julia Palmer, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) Adam Kamal, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2).
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Also known as Allophylus cobbe f. racemosus; Allophylus filiger; Allophylus longifoliatus; Allophylus rufescens var. cuspidatus; Allophylus rufescens var. heterodon and 26 more. (GBIF Backbone)
Kew accepts as species of their own Allophylus montanus: older names in GBIF's record of this species that Kew's World Checklist accepts as other species. (WCVP, RBG Kew, file of 2026-06-04)
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
gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-21GBIF's key 9364157 is Allophylus cobbe (L.) Forsyth fil.; the page links Kew's Allophylus cobbe (L.) Forsyth f., and the name is cited as Kew cites itgbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-21gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-21names fetched 2026-10-21wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 13 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (9 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 2 at a herbarium, 2 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)climate answeredasked 2026-10-21climate.extremes answeredasked 2026-10-21NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 17.00_73.750, lapse-corrected -210 m at 6.5 °C/kmwikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21IPNI and POWO linked by Kew's number for Allophylus cobbe (L.) Forsyth f. (the item's: IPNI 781726-1, POWO 781726-1)wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-21inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22inat.photos.cultivated not askedgbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-21openalex 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 65 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.