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Cordia taguahyensis Vell.

Boraginaceae · Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast +1

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Habitat figures
Cold floor (1 night in 100)
15.8°C
Record low 12.5 °C in 44 years, at a typical spot in the range NASA POWER
Warmest month, mean daily high
29°C
Jan, Feb and Mar at the habitat CHELSA
Rain a year (median across the range)
1,340mm
12 months of 25 mm or more in the median year CHELSA
Open-sky light
23–40DLI
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 April to July and September to October (October to January and March to April 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.

About the genus · Cordia

Cordia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Cordiaceae. It contains 228 species of shrubs and trees, that are found in tropical and subtropical regions worldwide. Many of the species are commonly called manjack, while bocote may refer to several Central American species in Spanish.

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

Cultivation

Seasons

The rain rule reads a summer growing season: 70% of the median year's rain (925 mm of 1,312 mm) falls in October to January and March to April, warmer than the year (wet-season mean 25.1 °C against a yearly mean of 24.1 °C). Months are the habitat's, southern hemisphere; shifted six months for a northern-hemisphere collection: April to July and September to October.

Rain

1,312 mm in the median year at the habitat, 925 mm of it October to January and March to April. Wettest month November at 199 mm, driest month August at 44 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 964 mm to 1,969 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 1,340 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 1,312 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: 23 to 40 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 20, the highest 90th-percentile month 42).

Warmth and air
Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range is 15.8 °C, the absolute minimum 12.5 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 35.0 °C. Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 17.6 °C in July (across the grid cells of the range 14.8 °C to 19.7 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 29.2 °C in February (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: 15.8 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range (NASA POWER).

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 62 to 66% 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. NASA POWER daily minima and maxima over 44 years at a typical spot in the range, lapse-corrected +3 m to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range. The cold floor is the 1st-percentile night named in its sentence. 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 Cordia taguahyensis through the yearWarmest months January, February and March, mean daily high 29 °C; coldest month July, mean nightly low 17.6 °C; 1,312 mm of rain in the median year (the twelve monthly medians added). Medians across the range, from CHELSA; the extremes at the edge from NASA POWER. Habitat months, southern hemisphere.10°15°20°25°30°35°40°35.0° 99th-percentile day, NASA POWER12.5° lowest night in 44 years, NASA POWER°C · day and nightcold quarter050100150200250300mm rainDLI 23–40RH 62–66%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain medians and 10th–90th percentile across 23 habitat cells, CHELSA cold quarter: the three months around the coldest month's mean nightly low extremes over 44 years at a typical spot in the range, from NASA POWER, marked at the edge, in no month DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C29 / 26–3029 / 26–3129 / 25–3027 / 24–2926 / 22–2825 / 22–2824 / 21–2825 / 21–2925 / 22–3027 / 23–3127 / 24–3028 / 25–30
Night °C23 / 21–2423 / 22–2422 / 21–2421 / 20–2320 / 17–2218 / 15–2018 / 15–2018 / 15–2019 / 17–2120 / 18–2221 / 19–2222 / 21–23
Rain mm156 / 127–283103 / 79–256152 / 138–281112 / 80–18570 / 47–10652 / 30–7349 / 27–8544 / 16–6969 / 33–135113 / 84–167199 / 139–227193 / 159–252
DLI39 / 35–4140 / 35–4234 / 31–3629 / 27–3125 / 21–3023 / 20–2824 / 20–3027 / 25–3430 / 27–3833 / 31–3735 / 34–3736 / 35–38
RH %65 / 63–6965 / 63–6966 / 64–7065 / 64–6964 / 61–6864 / 60–6663 / 60–6462 / 59–6563 / 59–6764 / 60–6965 / 63–6966 / 64–69
How this section is made
Each figure is the median across the 23 grid cells holding the 35 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 2182:2798 (-19.125, -40.075). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum 12.5 °C, 1st-percentile night 15.8 °C, 99th-percentile day 35.0 °C. 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 23 distinct grid cells holding 35 of the 35 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 2182:2798 (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 -19.00_-40.000, lapse-corrected +3 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 57 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 keys of the names Kew's World Checklist holds as this plant: 4060272 (Gerascanthus taguahuyensis (Vell.) Borhidi, 0 records), 5660566 (Cordia taguahyensis Vell., 725 records). No name was matched to GBIF; the keys are read from Kew's synonymy. How.

NativeBrazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Brazil North · 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-19.149, -40.065 · in the densest population, 267 records (84% of those in range)
Kew's description“shrub” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 319 georeferenced records inside the native range; the climate across the range on the 35 of them placed to within 10 km; the map shows only the 291 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 3 km away. 2 records outside the WCVP native range not used. 284 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 4060272 (Gerascanthus taguahuyensis (Vell.) Borhidi): Kew's file holds it as Gerascanthus taguahuyensis (Vell.) Borhidi (invalid under Cordia taguahyensis Vell.); 0 records, from GBIF's search API on the day of the build.Records also from GBIF's key 5660566 (Cordia taguahyensis Vell.): Kew's file holds it as Cordia taguahyensis Vell. (accepted); 725 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 inside the densest 4° block of the 319 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: Alex Popovkin, Bahia, Brazil from Brazil, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (6).

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

Carpotroche brasiliensis Carpotroche brasiliensis Achariaceae Photo: CC BY, Gabriel Jovêncio RibeiroFicus clusiifolia Ficus clusiifolia Moraceae Photo: CC BY, Diogo LuizPhilodendron stenolobum Philodendron stenolobum Araceae Photo: CC BY-SA, David J. StangDorstenia elata Dorstenia elata Moraceae Photo: CC0, rebecca bachman Campomanesia espiritosantensis Myrtaceae Joannesia princeps Joannesia princeps Arara nut-tree Photo: CC BY-SA, Fernanda Tupini

Other Cordia 32 in the reference

Cordia afra Cordia afra Boraginaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, JMKCordia africana Cordia africana Large-leaved Cordia Photo: CC BY, Augustin SoulardCordia alliodora Cordia alliodora Cypre Photo: CC BY, Alexis López HernándezCordia americana Cordia americana Cordiaceae Photo: CC BY, Cecilia Fer Díaz Cordia bogotensis Cordiaceae Cordia boissieri Cordia boissieri Mexican-olive Photo: CC BY, Joseph AubertCordia collococca Cordia collococca Clammy cherry Photo: CC BY, Alexis López HernándezCordia decandra Cordia decandra Cordiaceae Photo: CC BY, Jorge Herreros de LartundoCordia dentata Cordia dentata White cordia Photo: CC BY, Carlos Domínguez-RodríguezCordia dichotoma Cordia dichotoma Fragrant manjack Photo: CC BY-SA, vrxzCordia dodecandra Cordia dodecandra Cordiaceae Photo: CC BY, Deby GómezCordia ecalyculata Cordia ecalyculata Cordiaceae Photo: CC0, demianlescano all 33 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Gerascanthus taguahuyensis; Lithocardium mezianum; Cordia meziana. (WCVP, RBG Kew)

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The record

Family
Boraginaceae
Described by
Vell.
Native to
Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Brazil North
Wild records
319 in range · 291 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 Cordia taguahyensis Vell. (plant_name_id 2737275), 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 answeredasked 2026-10-22this 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; 0 records of GBIF's key 4060272, Gerascanthus taguahuyensis (Vell.) Borhidi (Kew's file holds it as Gerascanthus taguahuyensis (Vell.) Borhidi (invalid under Cordia taguahyensis Vell.)): GBIF occurrence search API; 725 records of GBIF's key 5660566, Cordia taguahyensis Vell. (Kew's file holds it as Cordia taguahyensis Vell. (accepted)): the GBIF download; 2 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (2 at a botanic garden or arboretum; 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 -19.00_-40.000, lapse-corrected +3 m at 6.5 °C/km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 114588-1, POWO 114588-1
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist taxon inat.taxon not asked
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 answeredasked 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 54 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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