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Clinopodium nubigenum (Kunth) Kuntze

Lamiaceae · Venezuela, Colombia +2

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Habitat figures
Coldest month, mean nightly low
2.8°C
Jul and Aug at the habitat, not a floor; extremes not used (the weather cell's ground is too far off) CHELSA
Warmest month, mean daily high
12°C
Sep and Oct at the habitat CHELSA
Rain a year (median across the range)
2,171mm
12 months of 25 mm or more in the median year CHELSA
Open-sky light
26–32DLI
Lowest to highest month (DLI) CHELSA
The year in the habitat's months, not shifted
  1. Jan
  2. Feb
  3. Mar
  4. Apr
  5. May
  6. Jun
  7. Jul
  8. Aug
  9. Sep
  10. Oct
  11. Nov
  12. Dec
A sharp rainy season, February to May and October to December (the habitat's months, not shifted), in a year of even temperature. rain rule, CHELSA
Not shifted: the shift rule does not apply to this habitat. The chart is in the habitat's months.

About the genus · Clinopodium

Clinopodium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae, in the subtribe Menthinae. Clinopodium belongs to a large and complex group of genera including many New World mints such as Hedeoma, Monarda, and Pycnanthemum, and this group is in turn a sister clade to Mentha. The genus name Clinopodium is derived from the Latin clinopodion, from the Ancient Greek κλινοπόδιον (klinopódion), from κλίνη (klínē) "bed" and πόδιον (pódion) "little foot". More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Clinopodium", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Seasons

The rain rule reads a sharp season: 70% of the median year's rain (1,531 mm of 2,136 mm) falls in February to May and October to December. The temperature curve is flat, 1.3 °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, 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

2,136 mm in the median year at the habitat, 1,531 mm of it February to May and October to December. Wettest month April at 268 mm, driest month August at 80 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 1,435 mm to 3,734 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 2,171 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 2,136 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: 26 to 32 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 24, the highest 90th-percentile month 36).

Warmth and air
Temperature

Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 2.8 °C in July and August (across the grid cells of the range 0.3 °C to 6.1 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 11.7 °C in September (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: none read. The nearest figure is 2.8 °C, the coldest month's mean nightly low, July and 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 whose ground is too far above or below the typical spot to correct for, and are not used.

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 65 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. 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

Habitat months, southern hemisphere

Habitat climate of Clinopodium nubigenum through the yearWarmest months September and October, mean daily high 12 °C; coldest months July and August, mean nightly low 2.8 °C; 2,136 mm of rain in the median year (the twelve monthly medians added). Medians across the range, from CHELSA. Habitat months, southern hemisphere.-5°0°5°10°15°20°frost°C · day and nightcold quarter0100200300400500mm rainDLI 26–32RH 65–69%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain medians and 10th–90th percentile across 110 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 °C11 / 9–1511 / 9–1511 / 9–1511 / 9–1511 / 9–1511 / 8–1510 / 8–1411 / 8–1512 / 9–1612 / 9–1611 / 9–1511 / 9–15
Night °C4 / 2–74 / 2–84 / 2–84 / 2–84 / 2–84 / 1–73 / 0–63 / 0–63 / 1–74 / 1–74 / 2–74 / 2–7
Rain mm172 / 109–252200 / 126–284247 / 167–339268 / 174–427202 / 113–412129 / 71–29388 / 48–23380 / 48–217136 / 71–290202 / 93–413216 / 105–396196 / 127–289
DLI30 / 28–3330 / 27–3329 / 26–3227 / 25–3027 / 24–3126 / 24–3028 / 25–3231 / 28–3532 / 29–3631 / 27–3430 / 25–3429 / 27–33
RH %68 / 65–7169 / 65–7269 / 65–7269 / 66–7369 / 64–7368 / 62–7367 / 60–7266 / 59–7165 / 60–7167 / 63–7167 / 64–7068 / 65–71

The daily extremes were not used: the correction for elevation, +1406 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 -4.4 °C, 1st-percentile night -2.2 °C.

How this section is made
Each figure is the median across the 110 grid cells on land that hold in-range records (188 records in those cells; 1 more cell holds records but no land by the elevation layer, so those records sit at sea and the cell is left out), 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 1811:2030 (-0.575, -78.475). 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 110 distinct grid cells holding 188 of the 189 in-range records (1 further cell with records at sea, by the elevation layer, left out); extremes and elevation at the typical cell 1811:2030 (its coldest month's mean nightly low nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell -0.50_-78.750, lapse-corrected +1406 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 3907 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.
NativeVenezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru · 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-0.333, -78.2 · in the densest population, 199 records (60% of those in range)
Kew's description“subshrub” · “montane tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 331 georeferenced records inside the native range; the climate across the range on the 188 of them in the land cells it reads, of 189 placed to within 10 km; the map shows only the 202 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 19 km away. 5 records outside the WCVP native range not used. 142 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.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 331 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Staci Oré, some rights reserved (CC BY) (3); author not stated, no rights reserved · CC0 (3).

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

Polylepis pauta Polylepis pauta Rosaceae Photo: CC BY, Dick Culbert from Gibsons, B.C., CanadaAzorella pedunculata Azorella pedunculata Apiaceae Photo: CC BY, Yuri SofronovWerneria humilis Werneria humilis Asteraceae Photo: CC BY, Yuri SofronovGentianella cerastioides Gentianella cerastioides Gentianaceae Photo: CC BY, Denis ZabinPuya clava-herculis Puya clava-herculis Bromeliaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedElaphoglossum mathewsii Elaphoglossum mathewsii Dryopteridaceae Photo: CC BY, Julien Renoult

Other Clinopodium 30 in the reference

Clinopodium acinos Clinopodium acinos Basil thyme Photo: CC0, author not statedClinopodium album Clinopodium album Lamiaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedClinopodium alpinum Clinopodium alpinum Rock Thyme Photo: CC BY, Edmundas GreimasClinopodium arkansanum Clinopodium arkansanum Low calamint Photo: CC BY, Katie KuceraClinopodium ashei Clinopodium ashei Ashe's calamint Photo: CC BY, carterClinopodium bolivianum Clinopodium bolivianum Inca muña Photo: CC BY, Tomás Carranza PeralesClinopodium brownei Clinopodium brownei Browne's savory Photo: CC0, author not statedClinopodium carolinianum Clinopodium carolinianum Georgia calamint Photo: CC BY, Leila DasherClinopodium chandleri Clinopodium chandleri San Miguel calamint Photo: CC BY, Adam J. SearcyClinopodium chilense Clinopodium chilense Chilean Calamint Photo: CC0, author not statedClinopodium chinense Clinopodium chinense Chinese Clinopodium Photo: CC BY, Ben CostamagnaClinopodium coccineum Clinopodium coccineum Scarlet calamint Photo: CC0, author not stated all 31 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Micromeria nubigena; Micromeria nubigena var. angustifolia; Micromeria nubigena var. cordifolia; Micromeria nubigena var. glabrescens; Satureja nubigena and 2 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Lamiaceae
Described by
(Kunth) Kuntze
Native to
Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador +1
Wild records
331 in range · 202 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 2026-10-21
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-21names fetched 2026-10-21
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate answeredasked 2026-10-21
Daily extremes (NASA POWER) climate.extremes answeredasked 2026-10-21NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell -0.50_-78.750, lapse-corrected +1406 m at 6.5 °C/km; read, and set aside: the correction for elevation, +1406 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 shown
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.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 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.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 rules
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 37 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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