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Allophylus timoriensis (DC.) Blume

Sapindaceae · Hainan, Nansei-shoto +31

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Habitat figures
Coldest month, mean nightly low
20.1°C
Jan at the habitat, not a floor; extremes not used (the weather cell's ground is too far off) CHELSA
Warmest month, mean daily high
28°C
Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep at the habitat CHELSA
Rain a year (median across the range)
2,165mm
12 months of 25 mm or more in the median year CHELSA
Open-sky light
22–38DLI
Lowest to highest month (DLI) CHELSA
The year in your months, northern hemisphere
  1. Jan
  2. Feb
  3. Mar
  4. Apr
  5. May
  6. Jun
  7. Jul
  8. Aug
  9. Sep
  10. Oct
  11. Nov
  12. Dec
Wet summers: the rain comes May to October, read as a summer growing season. rain rule, CHELSA
Northern hemisphere unless you set your site. The chart is in the habitat's months.

Summary

Allophylus timoriensis (synonym Allophylus marquesensis) is a species of plant in the family Sapindaceae. It is native to an area from Thailand through Southeast Asia to islands of the Pacific Ocean.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Allophylus timoriensis", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Seasons

The rain rule reads a summer growing season: 70% of the median year's rain (1,674 mm of 2,173 mm) falls in May to October, warmer than the year (wet-season mean 26.9 °C against a yearly mean of 24.8 °C). Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: November to April.

Rain

2,173 mm in the median year at the habitat, 1,674 mm of it May to October. Wettest month August at 360 mm, driest month March at 67 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 1,363 mm to 3,883 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 2,165 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 2,173 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: 22 to 38 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 44).

Warmth and air
Temperature

Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 20.1 °C in January (across the grid cells of the range 16.2 °C to 25.6 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 28.3 °C in July (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: none read. The nearest figure is 20.1 °C, the coldest month's mean nightly low, January, 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.

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 62 to 66% 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.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat months, northern hemisphere

Habitat climate of Allophylus timoriensis through the yearWarmest months June, July, August and September, mean daily high 28 °C; coldest month January, mean nightly low 20.1 °C; 2,173 mm of rain in the median year (the twelve monthly medians added). Medians across the range, from CHELSA. Habitat months, northern hemisphere.15°20°25°30°35°°C · day and nightcold quarter0100200300400500mm rainDLI 22–38RH 62–66%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain medians and 10th–90th percentile across 30 habitat cells, CHELSA cold quarter: the three months around the coldest month's mean nightly low DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C22 / 20–2723 / 21–2724 / 22–2826 / 25–2827 / 26–2928 / 27–2928 / 26–3028 / 26–2928 / 26–2927 / 25–2825 / 24–2823 / 21–28
Night °C20 / 16–2621 / 17–2622 / 19–2624 / 22–2625 / 23–2626 / 24–2726 / 24–2726 / 24–2726 / 24–2625 / 23–2623 / 20–2621 / 17–26
Rain mm77 / 19–30976 / 26–26867 / 31–24186 / 45–209173 / 87–337294 / 128–399322 / 156–421360 / 217–463311 / 164–463214 / 41–327109 / 27–30384 / 24–273
DLI24 / 19–3728 / 22–3734 / 28–4136 / 32–4436 / 30–4436 / 28–4238 / 29–3935 / 32–3634 / 31–3631 / 27–3926 / 22–3922 / 18–38
RH %62 / 58–6762 / 59–6863 / 61–6864 / 62–6865 / 63–6866 / 64–6966 / 64–6866 / 64–6865 / 63–6763 / 60–6763 / 59–6562 / 58–66

The daily extremes were not used: the record low, 20.2 °C, is warmer than the coldest month's mean nightly low across the range, 20.1 °C, which no night series of the habitat can give. 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 20.2 °C, 1st-percentile night 21.7 °C.

How this section is made
Each figure is the median across the 30 grid cells on land that hold in-range records (46 records in those cells; 3 more cells hold records but no land by the elevation layer, so those records sit at sea and the cells are left out), with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. A dash is a month one or more of those cells has no figure for in the grid (a variable CHELSA does not carry there), so no median is taken rather than one over fewer cells. Extremes and elevation were read at a typical spot in the range, cell 1988:6102 (-9.425, 125.125). Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Across the range: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 30 distinct grid cells holding 46 of the 49 in-range records (3 further cells with records at sea, by the elevation layer, left out); extremes and elevation at the typical cell 1988:6102 (its coldest month's mean nightly low nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell -9.50_125.000, lapse-corrected -178 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 34 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across the cells of the in-range records placed well enough to read one, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.

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: 5578253 (Schmidelia timoriensis DC., 0 records), 7610420 (Allophylus timoriensis (DC.) Blume, 137 records). No name was matched to GBIF; the keys are read from Kew's synonymy. How.

NativeHainan, Nansei-shoto, Taiwan, Myanmar, Nicobar Is., South China Sea, Thailand, Borneo, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Maluku, Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Bismarck Archipelago, New Guinea, Solomon Is., Fiji, Gilbert Is., Niue, New Caledonia, Samoa, Tonga, Vanuatu, Wallis-Futuna Is., Cook Is., Marquesas, Society Is., Tuamotu, Tubuai Is., Caroline Is., Marianas, Marshall Is. · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker22.024, 120.688 · in the densest population, 57 records (63% of those in range)
Kew's description“shrub or tree” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 91 georeferenced records inside the native range; the climate across the range on the 46 of them in the land cells it reads, of 49 placed to within 10 km; the map shows only the 41 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 343 km away. 20 records outside the WCVP native range not used. 42 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
Other GBIF keysRecords also from GBIF's key 5578253 (Schmidelia timoriensis DC.): Kew's file holds it as Schmidelia timoriensis DC. (synonym under Allophylus timoriensis (DC.) Blume); 0 records, from GBIF's search API on the day of the build.Records also from GBIF's key 7610420 (Allophylus timoriensis (DC.) Blume): Kew's file holds it as Allophylus timoriensis (DC.) Blume (accepted); 137 records, from GBIF's download.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 2° block of the 91 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Similar habitat climate The 6 nearest by mean daily high, mean nightly low and rain, month by month. How.

Myristica cagayanensis Myristica cagayanensis Myristicaceae Photo: CC BY, 胡正恆(Jackson Hu)Ficus pedunculosa Ficus pedunculosa Moraceae Photo: CC BY-SA, vrxz Pipturus asper Urticaceae Syzygium paucivenium Syzygium paucivenium Myrtaceae Photo: CC BY, pschenNeolitsea villosa Neolitsea villosa Lauraceae Photo: CC BY, 曾昱承 Yu-Cheng ZengDrypetes littoralis Drypetes littoralis Putranjivaceae Photo: CC BY, W Rao

Other Allophylus 5 in the reference

Allophylus cobbe Allophylus cobbe Sapindaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Steve FitzgeraldAllophylus decipiens Allophylus decipiens Bastard Currant Photo: CC BY-SA, Tony RebeloAllophylus dregeanus Allophylus dregeanus Forest Bastard Currant Photo: CC BY-SA, Tony RebeloAllophylus edulis Allophylus edulis Cocum Photo: CC BY, MatíasAllophylus natalensis Allophylus natalensis Dune Bastard Currant Photo: CC BY, Sunčana Bradley

Names & registers

Also known as Schmidelia parviflora; Allophylus marquesensis; Allophylus sundanus; Schmidelia timoriensis; Schmidelia macrophylla and 5 more. (WCVP, RBG Kew)

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The record

Family
Sapindaceae
Described by
(DC.) Blume
Native to
Hainan, Nansei-shoto, Taiwan +30
Wild records
91 in range · 41 open

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's names (WCVP) kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Allophylus timoriensis (DC.) Blume (plant_name_id 2629560), read from Kew's names file
GBIF species record gbif.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 asked
GBIF synonyms gbif.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 asked
GBIF common names gbif.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 asked
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.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; 0 records of GBIF's key 5578253, Schmidelia timoriensis DC. (Kew's file holds it as Schmidelia timoriensis DC. (synonym under Allophylus timoriensis (DC.) Blume)): GBIF occurrence search API; 137 records of GBIF's key 7610420, Allophylus timoriensis (DC.) Blume (Kew's file holds it as Allophylus timoriensis (DC.) Blume (accepted)): the GBIF download; 6 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (1 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 5 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate answeredasked 2026-10-22
Daily extremes (NASA POWER) climate.extremes answeredasked 2026-10-22NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell -9.50_125.000, lapse-corrected -178 m at 6.5 °C/km; read, and set aside: the record low, 20.2 °C, is warmer than the coldest month's mean nightly low across the range, 20.1 °C, which no night series of the habitat can give, so no cold floor is shown
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 781968-1, POWO 781968-1
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.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 asked
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every 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 14 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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