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Summary
Anthurium scandens is a species of plant in the genus Anthurium. Native from Mexico to Southeast Brazil, it is the most widely distributed species of Anthurium in the Americas, and also extends to the Caribbean including Haiti, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, and other nations.
Quoted from Wikipedia, "Anthurium scandens", CC BY-SA 4.0.
About the genus · Anthurium
Anthurium is a genus of about 1,000 species of flowering plants, the largest genus of the arum family, Araceae. General common names include anthurium, tailflower, flamingo flower, pigtail plant, and laceleaf.
Quoted from Wikipedia, "Anthurium", CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cultivation
Grouped as a tropical foliage plant, listed under the genus Anthurium in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “epiphyte”, “wet tropical”.
Seasons
The rain rule reads a sharp season: 70% of the median year's rain (1,708 mm of 2,388 mm) falls in June to November. The temperature curve is flat, 3.8 °C between the warmest and coldest month, so the growing-season rule does not infer a growing season from it. Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere. The temperature curve moves under 4 °C between the warmest and coldest month, where the shift rule does not apply, so they are not shifted for a collection elsewhere.
Rain
2,388 mm in the median year at the habitat, 1,708 mm of it June to November. Wettest month September at 343 mm, driest month March at 74 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 1,513 mm to 4,233 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 2,561 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 2,388 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: 26 to 39 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 21, the highest 90th-percentile month 42).
Warmth and air
Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range is 10.0 °C, the absolute minimum 6.3 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 35.2 °C. Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 14.6 °C in January (across the grid cells of the range 10.4 °C to 19.4 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 25.7 °C in April and May (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: 10.0 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range (NASA POWER).
Relative humidity at the habitat: 65 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 -116 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 Anthurium in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “epiphyte”, “wet tropical”. 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 23 °C in Jan, Nov and Dec to 26 °C in Apr and May; mean nightly low from 15 °C in Jan, Feb and Dec to 18 °C in May, Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep. The cold quarter, Dec to Feb, is the three months around the coldest month's mean nightly low, centred on the 3 months in a row that tie for it. 2,388 mm of rain in the median year (the twelve monthly medians added), the wettest month Sep. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 316 habitat cells. Over 44 years at a typical spot in the range (NASA POWER) the absolute minimum was 6.3 °C and the 99th-percentile day 35.2 °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 | 23 / 19–26 | 24 / 20–27 | 25 / 21–29 | 26 / 21–31 | 26 / 20–31 | 25 / 20–29 | 25 / 20–29 | 25 / 21–29 | 24 / 20–29 | 24 / 20–28 | 23 / 19–27 | 23 / 19–26 |
| Night °C | 15 / 10–19 | 15 / 11–20 | 16 / 12–20 | 17 / 13–22 | 18 / 13–23 | 18 / 13–23 | 18 / 12–22 | 18 / 12–22 | 18 / 13–22 | 17 / 13–22 | 16 / 12–21 | 15 / 11–20 |
| Rain mm | 92 / 31–202 | 86 / 26–200 | 74 / 23–272 | 111 / 42–361 | 184 / 106–473 | 302 / 134–481 | 292 / 118–475 | 291 / 121–522 | 343 / 173–568 | 286 / 154–509 | 194 / 62–404 | 133 / 38–273 |
| DLI | 29 / 22–34 | 32 / 26–37 | 36 / 29–40 | 39 / 26–42 | 38 / 24–41 | 32 / 23–38 | 33 / 25–40 | 34 / 26–39 | 30 / 25–37 | 29 / 23–34 | 27 / 22–32 | 26 / 21–32 |
| RH % | 67 / 62–72 | 66 / 61–71 | 65 / 59–71 | 65 / 59–72 | 66 / 61–73 | 69 / 64–75 | 69 / 63–74 | 69 / 63–74 | 70 / 66–75 | 70 / 66–76 | 69 / 65–75 | 68 / 64–73 |
Records on both sides of the equator: the 55 cells at least 10° south of it have seasons six months apart and are left out, not combined into a year no place has. These figures are across the 316 cells that remain: the 197 at least 10° north and the 119 within 10° of the equator, which stay in either way.
How this section is made
Natural habitat
How this section is made
Photographs
Photographs: (c) Kurt Miller, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) (3); (c) William G. Borges, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); (c) fmunoz, some rights reserved (CC BY).
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Also known as Anthurium scandens var. scandens; Dracontium scandens. (GBIF Backbone)
The record
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Where this page came from built 2026-10-21
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