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Callitris pancheri (Carrière) Byng

Cupressaceae · New Caledonia

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Habitat figuresfrom few records
Coldest month, mean nightly low
15.8°C
Aug at the habitat, not a floor; extremes not used (sea cell) CHELSA
Warmest month, mean daily high
26°C
Feb at the habitat CHELSA
Rain a year (median across the range)
2,459mm
12 months of 25 mm or more in the median year CHELSA
Open-sky light
19–41DLI
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 June to December (December to June at the habitat), read as a summer growing season. rain rule, CHELSA
Northern hemisphere unless you set your site. The chart is in the habitat's months.

From few records: 10 records in 6 grid cells. The records.

Summary

Callitris pancheri is a species of conifer in the cypress family, Cupressaceae. It is endemic to New Caledonia, where it occurs in small, scattered population along rivers. It used to be placed in its own genus Neocallitropsis but molecular phylogenetic analysis indicated that it was nested within Callitris, but only when the New Caledonian species C. sulcata (to which it is most closely related) is included.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Callitris pancheri", CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Seasons

The rain rule reads a summer growing season: 70% of the median year's rain (1,836 mm of 2,462 mm) falls in December to June, warmer than the year (wet-season mean 22.2 °C against a yearly mean of 20.9 °C). Months are the habitat's, southern hemisphere; shifted six months for a northern-hemisphere collection: June to December.

Rain

2,462 mm in the median year at the habitat, 1,836 mm of it December to June. Wettest month March at 385 mm, driest month September at 95 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 1,972 mm to 2,920 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 2,459 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 2,462 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: 19 to 41 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 19, the highest 90th-percentile month 42).

Warmth and air
Temperature

Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 15.8 °C in August (across the grid cells of the range 12.8 °C to 16.6 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 25.7 °C in February (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: none read. The nearest figure is 15.8 °C, the coldest month's mean nightly low, August, 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 that is mostly sea and are not used.

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 63 to 72% 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

From few records: this habitat climate is read from 10 records in 6 grid cells; a page says so under 12 records or 5 cells, and shows the figures as read.

Habitat months, southern hemisphere

Habitat climate of Callitris pancheri through the yearWarmest month February, mean daily high 26 °C; coldest month August, mean nightly low 15.8 °C; 2,462 mm of rain in the median year (the twelve monthly medians added). Medians across the range, from CHELSA. Habitat months, southern hemisphere.10°15°20°25°30°°C · day and nightcold quarter0100200300400500mm rainDLI 19–41RH 63–72%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain medians and 10th–90th percentile across 6 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 °C25 / 24–2626 / 25–2625 / 24–2624 / 22–2422 / 20–2321 / 19–2120 / 18–2020 / 18–2021 / 19–2122 / 21–2223 / 22–2425 / 24–25
Night °C22 / 19–2222 / 20–2322 / 19–2220 / 18–2119 / 16–1917 / 15–1816 / 13–1716 / 13–1716 / 14–1718 / 15–1819 / 16–2021 / 18–21
Rain mm277 / 222–312344 / 274–393385 / 314–443236 / 183–301190 / 154–229164 / 141–194127 / 107–149134 / 113–15795 / 71–127125 / 96–156145 / 116–167240 / 184–294
DLI39 / 38–4036 / 35–3731 / 30–3227 / 27–2822 / 21–2319 / 19–2021 / 21–2126 / 25–2633 / 33–3338 / 37–3840 / 39–4041 / 41–42
RH %70 / 69–7371 / 69–7472 / 69–7569 / 67–7366 / 65–7166 / 64–7063 / 62–6863 / 62–6864 / 62–6865 / 64–6866 / 65–6968 / 67–71

The daily extremes were read at a NASA POWER cell that is 48% land: neither it nor the next candidates whose coldest month's mean nightly low is within 2 °C of the median across cells sit in a POWER cell that is mostly land, and the rule reads a cold floor only from a cell that is mostly land, so none is read for this species. Nor is the coldest month's mean nightly low taken as one: it is a mean of a month's lows, not its coldest night. What that cell gave over 44 years: absolute minimum 14.5 °C, 1st-percentile night 16.5 °C, 99th-percentile day 26.9 °C.

How this section is made
Each figure is the median across the 6 grid cells holding the 10 in-range records, 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 2243:6931 (-22.175, 166.575). 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 6 distinct grid cells holding 10 of the 10 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 2243:6931 (its coldest month's mean nightly low nearest the median across cells, though its NASA POWER cell is only 48% land and none of the 4 next candidates within 2 °C of the median was mostly land); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell -22.00_166.875, lapse-corrected +299 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 367 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 key of the name Kew's World Checklist holds as this plant: 2684896 (Neocallitropsis pancheri (Carrière) de Laub., 163 records). No name was matched to GBIF; the keys are read from Kew's synonymy. How.

NativeNew Caledonia · 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 marker-22.233, 166.852 · in the densest population, 116 records (100% of those in range)
Kew's description“tree” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 116 georeferenced records inside the native range; the climate across the range on the 10 of them placed to within 10 km; the map shows only the 57 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 3 km away. 2 records outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the climate. 106 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 2684896 (Neocallitropsis pancheri (Carrière) de Laub.): Kew's file holds it as Neocallitropsis pancheri (Carrière) de Laub. (synonym under Callitris pancheri (Carrière) Byng); 163 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 of the 116 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

Not checked. iNaturalist and GBIF media were skipped (not asked) when this page was built. Not a statement that none exist.

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

Dacrydium araucarioides Dacrydium araucarioides Podocarpaceae Photo: CC BY, Irisa HudsonAcmopyle pancheri Acmopyle pancheri New Caledonia Acmopyle Photo: CC BY, Irisa HudsonSelaginella neocaledonica Selaginella neocaledonica Selaginellaceae Photo: CC BY, naturewatchwidow Blechnum obtusatum Aspleniaceae Agathis ovata Agathis ovata Scrub Kauri Photo: CC0, author not statedDrosera neocaledonica Drosera neocaledonica Droseraceae Photo: CC0, author not stated

Other Callitris 15 in the reference

Callitris arenaria Cupressaceae Callitris baileyi Callitris baileyi Bailey's Cypress pine Photo: CC0, author not statedCallitris canescens Callitris canescens Morrison's cypress-pine Photo: CC0, author not statedCallitris columellaris Callitris columellaris White cypress-pine Photo: CC BY, smathichongCallitris drummondii Callitris drummondii Drummond's cypress-pine Photo: CC BY, hjcjimCallitris endlicheri Callitris endlicheri Black cypress-pine Photo: CC BY, Kym NicolsonCallitris gracilis Callitris gracilis Cupressaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, PeripitusCallitris macleayana Callitris macleayana Stringybark pine Photo: CC BY, Bryce Watts-ParkerCallitris muelleri Callitris muelleri Illawarra pine Photo: CC BY, ronaveryCallitris oblonga Callitris oblonga Dwarf cypress pine Photo: CC BY-SA, Lachlan CopelandCallitris preissii Callitris preissii Rottnest Island pine Photo: CC BY, Michael Hains Callitris pyramidalis Cupressaceae all 16 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Eutacta pancheri; Neocallitropsis pancheri; Neocallitropsis araucarioides; Callitropsis araucarioides. (WCVP, RBG Kew)

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The record

Family
Cupressaceae
Described by
(Carrière) Byng
Native to
New Caledonia
Wild records
116 in range · 57 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 Callitris pancheri (Carrière) Byng (plant_name_id 520351), 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 answeredas of 2026-10-21this 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; 163 records of GBIF's key 2684896, Neocallitropsis pancheri (Carrière) de Laub. (Kew's file holds it as Neocallitropsis pancheri (Carrière) de Laub. (synonym under Callitris pancheri (Carrière) Byng)): the GBIF download; 3 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (2 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 1 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 -22.00_166.875, lapse-corrected +299 m at 6.5 °C/km; read, and set aside: NASA POWER's cell is mostly sea (48% land), so no cold floor is shown
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 77158977-1, POWO 77158977-1
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 nothing to reportasked 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 15 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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