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Ceropegia pedicellata (Schinz) Bruyns

Apocynaceae

Climate known 17 photographs Cactus or succulent
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About the genus · Ceropegia

Ceropegia is a genus of plants within the family Apocynaceae, native to Africa, southern Asia, and Australia. It was named by Carl Linnaeus, who first described this genus in his Genera plantarum, which appeared in 1737. Linnaeus referred to the description and picture of a plant in the Horti Malabarici as the plant for which the genus was created. More on Wikipedia ›

The opening of Wikipedia, “Ceropegia”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family
Apocynaceae
Described by
(Schinz) Bruyns
Native to
Angola, Namibia
Wild records
45 in range· 8 open

At a glance

Warmest month
30°C
Mar, mean day; nights 16 °C (CHELSA)
Rain
25mm/yr
no wet month · peak Mar 6 mm (CHELSA)
Light
29–55DLI
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 the genus Ceropegia, which is reliably one kind of plant (archetype table). Rain rule: no rainy season to read (25 mm a year); the temperature rule's cooler six months are December to May in the northern hemisphere. Habitat rain 25 mm a year, wettest March at 6 mm, driest August at 0 mm (habitat calendar, southern hemisphere). Open sky over the habitat: 29 to 55 mol/m²/day. Cold floor 6.1 °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 Hoodia pedicellata (Schinz) Plowes; Trichocaulon pedicellatum Schinz.

Cultivation

Grouped as a cactus or succulent by the genus Ceropegia, which is reliably 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 (25 mm a year); the temperature rule's cooler six months are December to May in the northern hemisphere.

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

Rain at the habitat is 25 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 June to November. Months are the habitat's, southern hemisphere; shifted six months for a northern-hemisphere collection: December to May.

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 25 mm a year, wettest March at 6 mm, driest August at 0 mm (habitat calendar, southern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

25 mm a year at the habitat. Wettest month March at 6 mm, driest August at 0 mm; 10 months under 5 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 22 mm to 54 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: 29 to 55 mol/m²/day.

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Open sky over the habitat: 29 to 55 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 28, the highest 90th-percentile month 56).

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 6.1 °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 6.1 °C, the absolute minimum 2.3 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 40.3 °C. Monthly means: coldest night 10.8 °C in August (across the envelope cells 10.6 °C to 11.5 °C), warmest day 30.0 °C in March (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: 6.1 °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: 44 to 58% 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 26 °C in Aug to 30 °C in Mar; mean night from 11 °C in Aug to 16 °C in Mar. The cold quarter, Jul to Sep, is the three months around the coldest night. 25 mm of rain a year, most in Mar. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 21 habitat cells. Over 44 years at the typical cell the absolute minimum was 2.3 °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°20°30°40°50°40.3° 99th-percentile day (undated)2.3° lowest night in 44 yrs (undated)°C · day and nightcold quarter01020mm rainDLI 29–55RH 44–58 %JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain 10th–90th percentile across 21 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 °C28 / 23–3028 / 24–3030 / 25–3230 / 25–3229 / 25–3027 / 24–2727 / 23–2726 / 21–2727 / 21–2927 / 21–2928 / 22–3028 / 22–30
Night °C15 / 15–1616 / 16–1716 / 16–1716 / 16–1715 / 14–1513 / 12–1312 / 12–1311 / 11–1211 / 11–1212 / 11–1213 / 12–1414 / 13–14
Rain mm4 / 3–85 / 4–136 / 5–153 / 3–6111 / 0–10 / 0–11 / 0–111 / 1–31 / 1–3
DLI53 / 50–5450 / 47–5045 / 43–4538 / 37–3832 / 31–3329 / 28–3030 / 30–3136 / 34–3643 / 41–4349 / 47–5053 / 51–5455 / 52–56
RH %58 / 54–6458 / 54–6454 / 50–6249 / 47–5845 / 43–5444 / 43–5144 / 43–5248 / 45–5751 / 48–6154 / 50–6254 / 51–6257 / 53–63

Each figure is the median across the 21 grid cells holding the 34 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 2271:3901 (-23.575, 15.075). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum 2.3 °C, 1st-percentile night 6.1 °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 21 distinct grid cells holding the 34 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 2271:3901 (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 -23.50_15.000, lapse-corrected -1 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 442 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.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeAngola, Namibia
Kew's description“succulent subshrub” · “desert or dry shrubland”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Map marker-23.09, 14.896 · in the densest population, 44 records (98% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker and the climate envelope rest on all 45 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 8 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker in the same place. 11 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km and stay on the map but off the climate.
The map markerthe map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 45 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

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Photographs: mr_t_explorer, CC0, iNaturalist via GBIF; dune_ninja, CC0, iNaturalist via GBIF (4); Ryan van Huyssteen, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF; Marc Fradera-Soler, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF (2).

Papers naming this species

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

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GBIF.Org User (2023) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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GBIF.Org User (2023) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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GBIF.Org User (2022) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility

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 Ceropegia 699 in the reference

History & registers

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Every upstream is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, or refused. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 3 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.