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Clausena lansium (Lour.) Skeels

Chinese clausena, Wampi, huang pi, vampi

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Summary

Clausena lansium is a species of flowering plant in the family Rutaceae. This strongly scented evergreen tree reaches 3–8 m tall in height and is sometimes referred to by the common names wampee or wampi,

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

About the genus · Clausena

Clausena is a genus of flowering plants in the citrus family, Rutaceae. It was first defined by the Dutch botanist Nicolaas Laurens Burman in 1768. It is distributed in Africa, southern Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Islands.

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

Family
Rutaceae
Described by
(Lour.) Skeels
Native to
China South-Central, Hainan, China Southeast +3
Wild records
300 in range· 63 open

At a glance

Warmest month
30°C
Jul, mean day; nights 25 °C (CHELSA)
Rain
2020mm/yr
12 wet months · peak Jun 354 mm (CHELSA)
Light
20–35DLI
mol/m²/day, winter to summer, open sky (CHELSA shortwave)
In short condensed by rule from the cultivation cards · not written by a person
Rain rule: a summer growing season, May to September in the northern hemisphere (May to September at the habitat, northern). Habitat rain 2020 mm a year, wettest June at 354 mm, driest December at 32 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere). Open sky over the habitat: 20 to 35 mol/m²/day. Cold floor 8.0 °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 Aulacia punctata (Sonn.) Raeusch.; Clausena punctata (Sonn.) Rehder & E.H.Wilson; Clausena wampi (Blanco) Oliv.; Cookia punctata Sonn.; Cookia wampi Blanco and 4 more.

Cultivation

Its year Rain rule: a summer growing season, May to September in the northern hemisphere (May to September at the habitat, northern).

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

The rain rule reads a summer growing season: 70% of the year's rain (1511 mm of 2020 mm) falls in May to September, warmer than the year (wet-season mean 27.3 °C against a yearly mean of 22.6 °C). Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: November 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 2020 mm a year, wettest June at 354 mm, driest December at 32 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

2020 mm a year at the habitat, 1511 mm of it May to September. Wettest month June at 354 mm, driest December at 32 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 1453 mm to 2897 mm (10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year) (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; habitat calendar, northern 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: 20 to 35 mol/m²/day.

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Open sky over the habitat: 20 to 35 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 14, the highest 90th-percentile month 38).

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 8.0 °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 8.0 °C, the absolute minimum 3.9 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 32.1 °C. Monthly means: coldest night 11.8 °C in January (across the envelope cells 5.5 °C to 14.8 °C), warmest day 30.1 °C in July (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: 8.0 °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: 59 to 67% 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 18 °C in Jan to 30 °C in Jul; mean night from 12 °C in Jan to 25 °C in Jul. The cold quarter, Dec to Feb, is the three months around the coldest night. 2020 mm of rain a year, most in Jun. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 198 habitat cells. Over 44 years at the typical cell the absolute minimum was 3.9 °C and the 99th-percentile day 32.1 °C; neither is dated to a month. Beneath: daily light integral and relative humidity through the year, each on its own scale.10°15°20°25°30°35°32.1° 99th-percentile day (undated)3.9° lowest night in 44 yrs (undated)°C · day and nightcold quarter0100200300400500mm rainDLI 20–35RH 59–67 %JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain 10th–90th percentile across 198 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 °C18 / 13–2119 / 15–2222 / 18–2525 / 23–2827 / 26–2929 / 28–3130 / 29–3230 / 29–3229 / 27–3027 / 24–2823 / 20–2519 / 15–22
Night °C12 / 6–1513 / 8–1616 / 11–1920 / 15–2222 / 19–2424 / 21–2625 / 23–2625 / 22–2623 / 20–2521 / 17–2317 / 11–1913 / 7–16
Rain mm35 / 19–8761 / 30–14888 / 44–184170 / 86–221284 / 178–341354 / 209–460295 / 195–410323 / 168–426255 / 106–39376 / 46–29447 / 33–11032 / 20–63
DLI20 / 14–2321 / 15–2625 / 18–3229 / 22–3531 / 26–3532 / 27–3535 / 32–3832 / 30–3530 / 28–3228 / 23–3124 / 18–2621 / 16–23
RH %61 / 58–6563 / 61–6764 / 62–6866 / 63–7066 / 63–7067 / 63–7166 / 64–7067 / 64–7065 / 62–6862 / 58–6560 / 57–6459 / 56–64

Each figure is the median across the 198 grid cells holding the 289 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 1349:5880 (22.525, 114.025). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum 3.9 °C, 1st-percentile night 8.0 °C, 99th-percentile day 32.1 °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 198 distinct grid cells holding the 289 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 1349:5880 (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 22.50_113.750, lapse-corrected -6 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 12 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.
NativeChina South-Central, Hainan, China Southeast, Bangladesh, Laos, Vietnam· introduced: Christmas I.
Kew's description“shrub or tree” · “wet tropical”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Map marker22.256, 113.858 · in the densest population, 131 records (44% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker and the climate envelope rest on all 300 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 63 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 26 km away. 39 records outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. 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 300 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

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Photographs: no rights reserved · CC0 (3); (c) 謝麗霦, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) 林正文, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) CYL, some rights reserved (CC BY) (3).

Photographs: iNaturalist and Wikimedia Commons 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 Clausena lansium, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Production of farnesene and santalene by Saccharomyces cerevisiae using fed‐batch cultivations with RQ‐controlled feed
Stefan Tippmann, Gionata Scalcinati, Verena Siewers, Jens Nielsen (2015) · Biotechnology and Bioengineering
(+)-Clausenamide protects against drug-induced liver injury by inhibiting hepatocyte ferroptosis
Min Wang, Chunyu Liu, Tian Wang, Hong-Min Yu (2020) · Cell Death and Disease
Carbazole alkaloids from Clausena lansium
Wen‐Shyong Li, James D. McChesney, Farouk S. El‐Feraly (1991) · Phytochemistry
Constituents of the Roots of Clausena lansium and Their Potential Anti-inflammatory Activity
De-Yang Shen, Yu‐Yi Chan, Tsong‐Long Hwang, Shin‐Hun Juang (2014) · Journal of Natural Products
Carbazole Alkaloids from the Stems of Clausena lansium
Hang Liu, Chuang‐Jun Li, Jingzhi Yang, Ning Na (2012) · Journal of Natural Products
ALOX5 inhibition protects against dopaminergic neurons undergoing ferroptosis
Kun Li, Meng Wang, Zihan Huang, Min Wang (2023) · Pharmacological Research
Non‐pharmacological intervention for dementia patients
Masatoshi Takeda, Toshihisa Tanaka, Masayasu Okochi, Hiromitsu Kazui (2012) · Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
Three novel cyclic amides from Clausena lansium
Yang Ming-He, Chen Yan-yong, Huang Liang (1988) · Phytochemistry
A review of traditional uses, phytochemical and pharmacological aspects of selected members of Clausena genus (Rutaceae)
Adam Arbab Ismail, Bustamam Abdul Ahmad, A. Ashour Mohamed, RasedeeAbdullah (2012) · Journal of Medicinal Plants Research
Antioxidant and Anticancer Activities of Wampee (Clausena lansium (Lour.) Skeels) Peel
K. Nagendra Prasad, Jing Hao, Chun Yi, Dandan Zhang (2009) · BioMed Research International

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 Clausena 1 in the reference

History & registers

Where this page came from built 2026-09-20 · dossier v2 · node
gbif.species answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-20 (offline re-derivation; the backbone was not asked)
gbif.synonyms answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-20 (offline re-derivation; the backbone was not asked)
gbif.vernacular answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-20 (offline re-derivation; the backbone was not asked)
wcvp.distribution answered
gbif.occurrences answeredGBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.3h4zam
climate answered
wikidata answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-20 (rederive); that build: carried from build of 2026-09-19 (rederive); that build: carried from build of 2026-09-19 (rederive)
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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 39 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.