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Antimima eendornensis (Dinter) H.E.K.Hartmann

Aizoaceae

Climate known 4 photographs Cactus or succulent
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Summary

Antimima eendornensis is a species of plant in the family Aizoaceae. It is endemic to Namibia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland and rocky areas. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Text from Wikipedia, “Antimima eendornensis”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written. Kept separate from everything derived here.

About the genus · Antimima

Antimima is a genus of succulent plants in the family Aizoaceae. It includes 106 species native to Namibia and the Cape Provinces and Free State of South Africa.

Text from Wikipedia, “Antimima”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family
Aizoaceae
Described by
(Dinter) H.E.K.Hartmann
Native to
Namibia
Wild records
4 in range· 0 open

At a glance

Warmest month
34°C
Jan, mean day; nights 18 °C (CHELSA)
Rain
106mm/yr
no wet month · peak Feb 19 mm (CHELSA)
Light
23–57DLI
mol/m²/day, winter to summer, open sky (CHELSA shortwave)
In short condensed by rule from the cultivation cards · not written by a person
Grouped as a cactus or succulent by Aizoaceae, which is usually but not always one kind of plant (archetype table). Rain rule: no rainy season to read (106 mm a year); the temperature rule's cooler six months are October to March in the northern hemisphere. Habitat rain 106 mm a year, wettest February at 19 mm, driest June at 3 mm (habitat calendar, southern hemisphere). Open sky over the habitat: 23 to 57 mol/m²/day. Cold floor -0.3 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).
Each sentence is one card's own one-line form, written by the same rule as the card (Its year, Rain, Light, Temperature); the note cannot say what a card does not. Months are given for the northern hemisphere (set your site in Settings to change this), and the habitat's own alongside. The cards · the figures.

Also known as Mesembryanthemum eendornense Dinter.

Cultivation

Grouped as a cactus or succulent by Aizoaceae, which is usually but not always one kind of plant (archetype table). The table holds no figure for this group, which spans too much for one minimum; the cold floor is the habitat's alone, and no prose comes from the table.

Its year Rain rule: no rainy season to read (106 mm a year); the temperature rule's cooler six months are October to March in the northern hemisphere.

This species’ habitat figures, and what two fixed rules read from them.

Rain at the habitat is 106 mm a year (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Under 120 mm the rain rule reads no rainy season, and the growing-season rule infers nothing from it. The temperature rule reads the cooler six months as April to September. Months are the habitat's, southern hemisphere; shifted six months for a northern-hemisphere collection: October to March.

Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the envelope cells: 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 gives a season to reverse. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain Habitat rain 106 mm a year, wettest February at 19 mm, driest June at 3 mm (habitat calendar, southern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

106 mm a year at the habitat. Wettest month February at 19 mm, driest June at 3 mm; 3 months under 5 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 99 mm to 108 mm (10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year) (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; habitat calendar, southern hemisphere).

CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the envelope cells. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light Open sky over the habitat: 23 to 57 mol/m²/day.

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Open sky over the habitat: 23 to 57 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA).

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.

Warmth and air Cold floor -0.3 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell is -0.3 °C, the absolute minimum -3.7 °C, about 4 frost nights a year (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 40.3 °C. Monthly means: coldest night 4.3 °C in July (across the envelope cells 4.2 °C to 4.5 °C), warmest day 33.7 °C in January (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: -0.3 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell (NASA POWER).

NASA POWER daily minima and maxima 1981–2024 at the typical cell, lapse-corrected to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA. The cold floor is the figure named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 41 to 47% across the year (monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the envelope cells.

The figures the cards read from are in Climate below, and where they came from in Natural habitat.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat climate through the yearMean day from 19 °C in Jun to 34 °C in Jan; mean night from 4 °C in Jul to 18 °C in Feb. The cold quarter, Jun to Aug, is the three months around the coldest night. 106 mm of rain a year, most in Feb. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 4 habitat cells. Over 44 years at the typical cell the absolute minimum was -3.7 °C and the 99th-percentile day 40.3 °C; neither is dated to a month. Beneath: daily light integral and relative humidity through the year, each on its own scale.-10°10°20°30°40°50°frost40.3° 99th-percentile day (undated)-3.7° lowest night in 44 yrs (undated)°C · day and nightcold quarter01020mm rainDLI 23–57RH 41–47 %JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain 10th–90th percentile across 4 habitat cells cold quarter: the three months around the coldest night extremes over 44 years at the typical cell, marked at the edge: undated DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C34 / 34–3434 / 33–3431 / 31–3227 / 27–2723 / 23–2319 / 19–1919 / 19–1921 / 21–2125 / 25–2528 / 28–2830 / 30–3133 / 32–33
Night °C18 / 18–1818 / 18–1917 / 17–1713 / 13–139 / 9–95 / 5–54 / 4–56 / 6–69 / 9–912 / 12–1214 / 14–1416 / 16–16
Rain mm11 / 10–1119 / 18–2016 / 15–1717 / 16–1753 / 3–45338 / 7–88 / 7–88 / 8–9
DLI56 / 56–5651 / 51–5143 / 43–4334 / 34–3427 / 27–2723 / 23–2425 / 25–2531 / 31–3140 / 40–4048 / 48–4955 / 54–5557
RH %4142 / 42–4344 / 43–44454647 / 47–4847 / 46–474543424141

Each figure is the median across the 4 grid cells holding the 4 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. Extremes and elevation were read at the typical cell 2373:3978 (-28.675, 18.925). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum -3.7 °C, 1st-percentile night -0.3 °C, 99th-percentile day 40.3 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Envelope: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 4 distinct grid cells holding the 4 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 2373:3978 (its coldest month's mean night nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell -28.50_18.750, lapse-corrected +103 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 927 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 every in-range record's cell, not at the marker.
No openly licensed record to show inside the range.
NativeNamibia
Kew's description“succulent subshrub” · “desert or dry shrubland”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Map marker-28.75, 18.95 · in the densest population, 4 records (100% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker and the climate envelope rest on all 4 georeferenced records inside the native range; none carries a licence permitting republication, so the map shows no points. Under a dozen records: treat the map and the climate as indicative.
The map markerthe map marker: the centre of the tenth-degree cell nearest the middle (no openly licensed record lies in the population, so no record's coordinates are published) of the densest 1° population of the 4 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

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Photographs: unknown, CC BY-SA, via GBIF (3).

Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Antimima eendornensis, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Conserving orthodox seeds of globally threatened plants ex situ in the Millennium Seed Bank, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK: the status of seed collections
Udayangani Liu, Tiziana Antonella Cossu, Rachael M. Davies, Félix Forest (2020) · Biodiversity and Conservation
Patterns of plant diversity and endemism in Namibia
Patricia Craven, P. Vorster (2006) · Bothalia
Occurrence Download
GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
Occurrence Download
GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
Occurrence Download
GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
Occurrence Download
GBIF.Org User (2024) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
Antimima eendornensis: Loots, S. & Mannheimer, C.
IUCN (2004) · IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

Similar habitat climate the 6 species whose habitat climate is nearest this one's: mean day and night, month by month, and rain on a log scale, in calendar order, so a habitat with the same seasons six months out is far, not near. Nothing else counts: not range, not family.

Other Antimima 104 in the reference

History & registers

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