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From few records: 4 records in 4 grid cells. The records.
Summary
Artocarpus sericicarpus, the peluntan, pedalai, gumihan or terap bulu, is a tropical evergreen tree species of the family Moraceae. It is a member of the genus Artocarpus, which also includes jackfruit and breadfruit.
Quoted from Wikipedia, "Artocarpus sericicarpus", CC BY-SA 4.0.
About the genus · Artocarpus
Artocarpus is a genus of approximately 60 trees and shrubs of Southeast Asian and Pacific origin, belonging to the mulberry family, Moraceae. Most species of Artocarpus are restricted to Southeast Asia; a few cultivated species are more widely distributed, especially A. altilis (breadfruit) and A. heterophyllus (jackfruit), which are cultivated throughout the tropics.
Quoted from Wikipedia, "Artocarpus", CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cultivation
Seasons
The rain rule reads no short rainy season: 70% of the median year's rain (2,515 mm of 3,523 mm) takes 8 months, October to May. Mean temperature moves 1.1 °C between the warmest and coldest month. Months are the habitat's, southern hemisphere. The habitat lies within 10° of the equator, where the shift rule does not apply, so they are not shifted for a collection elsewhere.
Rain
3,523 mm in the median year at the habitat, 2,515 mm of it October to May. Wettest month December at 357 mm, driest month September at 233 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 1,736 mm to 4,931 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 3,418 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 3,523 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: 29 to 36 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 23, the highest 90th-percentile month 41).
Warmth and air
Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range is 18.6 °C, the absolute minimum 16.6 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 28.5 °C. Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 21.4 °C in January (across the grid cells of the range 19.2 °C to 24.0 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 27.9 °C in October (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: 18.6 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range (NASA POWER).
Relative humidity at the habitat: 67 to 69% 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 +285 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
From few records: this habitat climate is read from 4 records in 4 grid cells; a page says so under 12 records or 5 cells, and shows the figures as read.
Habitat months, southern hemisphere
Mean daily high from 27 °C in Jan, Feb, Jun, Jul, Aug, Nov and Dec to 28 °C in Mar, Apr, May, Sep and Oct; mean nightly low from 21 °C in Jan to 23 °C in Apr, May, Jun and Oct. The cold quarter, Dec to Feb, is the three months around the coldest month's mean nightly low. 3,523 mm of rain in the median year (the twelve monthly medians added), the wettest month Dec. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 4 habitat cells. Over 44 years at a typical spot in the range (NASA POWER) the absolute minimum was 16.6 °C and the 99th-percentile day 28.5 °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 | 27 / 26–28 | 27 / 26–28 | 28 / 26–29 | 28 / 26–30 | 28 / 26–30 | 27 / 25–29 | 27 / 25–29 | 27 / 26–29 | 28 / 26–29 | 28 / 27–29 | 27 / 27–29 | 27 / 26–28 |
| Night °C | 21 / 19–24 | 22 / 19–24 | 22 / 19–24 | 23 / 20–25 | 23 / 20–25 | 23 / 19–25 | 22 / 18–24 | 22 / 18–24 | 22 / 18–24 | 23 / 19–25 | 22 / 19–25 | 22 / 19–24 |
| Rain mm | 344 / 84–537 | 281 / 72–477 | 345 / 81–539 | 309 / 84–525 | 282 / 158–384 | 263 / 192–320 | 270 / 161–319 | 242 / 99–310 | 233 / 81–331 | 274 / 114–390 | 323 / 130–478 | 357 / 168–551 |
| DLI | 31 / 25–35 | 34 / 28–36 | 36 / 30–37 | 33 / 30–39 | 30 / 29–37 | 29 / 29–35 | 31 / 30–33 | 34 / 33–35 | 35 / 30–39 | 34 / 28–41 | 31 / 25–38 | 29 / 23–35 |
| RH % | 67 / 66–72 | 67 / 65–71 | 68 / 65–70 | 69 / 65–71 | 68 / 65–71 | 67 / 66–69 | 68 / 66–69 | 68 / 64–68 | 67 / 64–69 | 67 / 64–70 | 68 / 66–72 | 67 / 66–71 |
How this section is made
Natural habitat
How this section is made
Photographs
Photographs: (c) Fabian Brambach, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); David J. Stang, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (4).
Related
Similar habitat climate The 6 nearest by mean daily high, mean nightly low and rain, month by month. How.
Acriopsis liliifolia Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Michael Berardozzi Dianthera comata Acanthaceae Orania palindan Arecaceae
Pleurothallis pruinosa Waxy bonnet orchid Photo: CC BY, Guillaume Delaitre
Ficus villosa Villous fig Photo: CC BY, Ong Jyh Seng
Anthurium obtusum Araceae Photo: CC BY-SA, YuOther Artocarpus 16 in the reference
Artocarpus altilis Breadfruit Photo: CC BY, John Barkla Artocarpus blancoi Moraceae
Artocarpus elasticus Terap Photo: CC BY, Steven Bodzin
Artocarpus heterophyllus Jackfruit Photo: CC BY, Carolina Leal
Artocarpus hirsutus Hirsute artocarpus Photo: CC BY-SA, sneha_forestry
Artocarpus hypargyreus Silver-back Artocarpus Photo: CC0, author not stated
Artocarpus integer Chempedak Photo: CC BY, Doreen
Artocarpus lacucha Moraceae Photo: CC BY, HM Emon
Artocarpus odoratissimus Marang Photo: CC BY, Kai Squires all 17 ›Names & registers
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.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; 4 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (3 at a herbarium, 1 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)climate answeredasked 2026-10-21climate.extremes answeredasked 2026-10-21NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 1.50_111.875, lapse-corrected +285 m at 6.5 °C/kmwikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21wikipedia 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 2026-10-21none of the photographs on this page is credited to GBIF: those shown are other sources', and GBIF's were the same photographs or were set aside by the photograph rulescommons 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 5 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.


