Clavija minor B.Ståhl
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From few records: 9 records in 8 grid cells. The records.
Cultivation
Seasons
The rain rule reads a sharp season: 70% of the median year's rain (1,758 mm of 2,484 mm) falls in April to June and August to November. The temperature curve is flat, 0.7 °C between the warmest and coldest month, so the growing-season rule does not infer a growing season from it. Months are the habitat's, northern 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
2,484 mm in the median year at the habitat, 1,758 mm of it April to June and August to November. Wettest month October at 302 mm, driest month January at 92 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 1,553 mm to 3,359 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 2,454 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 2,484 mm here is the median year's, the twelve monthly medians added, which the rain rule reads. Habitat calendar, northern hemisphere; median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA.
Light
Open sky over the habitat: 28 to 35 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 25, the highest 90th-percentile month 36).
Warmth and air
Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 20.5 °C in January (across the grid cells of the range 15.5 °C to 22.9 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 28.2 °C in February (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: none read. The nearest figure is 20.5 °C, the coldest month's mean nightly low, January, 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 whose ground is too far above or below the typical spot to correct for, and are not used.
Relative humidity at the habitat: 63 to 68% 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 9 records in 8 grid cells; a page says so under 12 records or 5 cells, and shows the figures as read.
Habitat months, northern hemisphere
Mean daily high from 27 °C in May, Oct, Nov and Dec to 28 °C in Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep; mean nightly low from 21 °C in every month to 21 °C in every month. The cold quarter, Dec to Feb, is the three months around the coldest month's mean nightly low. 2,484 mm of rain in the median year (the twelve monthly medians added), the wettest month Oct. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 8 habitat cells. 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 | 28 / 24–30 | 28 / 24–31 | 28 / 24–31 | 28 / 23–31 | 27 / 23–31 | 28 / 22–31 | 28 / 22–32 | 28 / 23–32 | 28 / 23–31 | 27 / 23–30 | 27 / 23–29 | 27 / 23–30 |
| Night °C | 21 / 16–23 | 21 / 16–23 | 21 / 16–24 | 21 / 16–24 | 21 / 16–24 | 21 / 15–24 | 21 / 14–24 | 21 / 14–24 | 21 / 14–23 | 21 / 15–23 | 21 / 16–23 | 21 / 16–23 |
| Rain mm | 92 / 61–107 | 120 / 88–152 | 188 / 139–243 | 261 / 192–369 | 288 / 179–357 | 210 / 138–269 | 189 / 122–272 | 196 / 100–340 | 246 / 116–426 | 302 / 164–423 | 255 / 162–358 | 137 / 110–179 |
| DLI | 32 / 28–34 | 34 / 30–35 | 35 / 31–36 | 32 / 29–33 | 29 / 28–33 | 29 / 26–34 | 32 / 28–36 | 33 / 32–36 | 34 / 30–36 | 31 / 28–34 | 28 / 25–31 | 30 / 26–32 |
| RH % | 64 / 62–69 | 63 / 61–68 | 65 / 62–68 | 67 / 65–70 | 67 / 66–70 | 66 / 64–69 | 65 / 62–69 | 63 / 62–68 | 66 / 62–69 | 68 / 63–70 | 68 / 65–71 | 67 / 64–70 |
The daily extremes were not used: the correction for elevation, -1189 m, is beyond the 1,000 m either way that a lapse rate is applied over, so the weather cell's ground is other terrain than the typical spot's. So no cold floor is read for this species, and the coldest month's mean nightly low is not taken as one. What that cell gave, so corrected, over 44 years: absolute minimum 14.2 °C, 1st-percentile night 17.4 °C.
How this section is made
Natural habitat
How this section is made
Photographs
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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
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