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Dicliptera sexangularis (L.) Juss.

Sixangle foldwing; False-mint

Acanthaceae · Texas, Florida +28

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Habitat figures
Cold floor (1 night in 100)
11.0°C
Record low 2.3 °C in 44 years, at a typical spot in the range NASA POWER
Warmest month, mean daily high
31°C
Jul and Aug at the habitat CHELSA
Rain a year (median across the range)
1,248mm
12 months of 25 mm or more in the median year CHELSA
Open-sky light
24–41DLI
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 June to October, read as a summer growing season. rain rule, CHELSA
Northern hemisphere unless you set your site. The chart is in the habitat's months.

Summary

Dicliptera sexangularis, the sixangle foldwing, is a flowering plant in the genus Dicliptera and the family Acanthaceae. It has red blooms and is a perennial. In the United States it grows in Florida and Texas. It has also been reported in parts of the Caribbean, Central America, and Venezuela. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Dicliptera sexangularis", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Seasons

The rain rule reads a summer growing season: 70% of the median year's rain (849 mm of 1,203 mm) falls in June to October, warmer than the year (wet-season mean 27.0 °C against a yearly mean of 24.6 °C). Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: December to April.

Rain

1,203 mm in the median year at the habitat, 849 mm of it June to October. Wettest month September at 200 mm, driest month February at 36 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 744 mm to 1,711 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 1,248 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 1,203 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: 24 to 41 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 44).

Warmth and air
Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range is 11.0 °C, the absolute minimum 2.3 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 31.9 °C. Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 17.5 °C in January (across the grid cells of the range 11.6 °C to 21.0 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 30.5 °C in July and August (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: 11.0 °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: 59 to 64% 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 -2 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, northern hemisphere

Habitat climate of Dicliptera sexangularis through the yearWarmest months July and August, mean daily high 31 °C; coldest month January, mean nightly low 17.5 °C; 1,203 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, northern hemisphere.0°10°20°30°40°31.9° 99th-percentile day, NASA POWER2.3° lowest night in 44 years, NASA POWER°C · day and nightcold quarter0100200300400mm rainDLI 24–41RH 59–64%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain medians and 10th–90th percentile across 397 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 °C24 / 21–2925 / 22–3027 / 23–3229 / 25–3430 / 26–3530 / 27–3431 / 26–3431 / 26–3430 / 25–3228 / 24–3027 / 23–2925 / 21–29
Night °C18 / 12–2118 / 12–2219 / 14–2221 / 16–2423 / 18–2524 / 18–2624 / 18–2624 / 18–2624 / 18–2622 / 16–2520 / 14–2319 / 13–22
Rain mm42 / 18–6336 / 15–6737 / 12–8746 / 20–7690 / 51–132178 / 94–262163 / 82–264181 / 92–258200 / 134–302127 / 79–18959 / 27–10344 / 19–66
DLI25 / 22–3030 / 26–3435 / 32–3940 / 37–4341 / 38–4439 / 35–4240 / 36–4338 / 35–4133 / 31–3730 / 27–3226 / 23–3024 / 20–28
RH %60 / 58–6659 / 57–6559 / 55–6359 / 55–6360 / 56–6563 / 60–6763 / 60–6663 / 60–6664 / 62–6863 / 60–6861 / 58–6760 / 58–66
How this section is made
Each figure is the median across the 397 grid cells on land that hold in-range records (624 records in those cells; 14 more cells hold records but no land by the elevation layer, so those records sit at sea and the cells are 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 1288:1993 (25.575, -80.325). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum 2.3 °C, 1st-percentile night 11.0 °C, 99th-percentile day 31.9 °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 397 distinct grid cells holding 624 of the 646 in-range records (14 further cells with records at sea, by the elevation layer, left out); extremes and elevation at the typical cell 1288:1993 (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 25.50_-80.625, lapse-corrected -2 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 2 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.
NativeTexas, Florida, Mexico Central, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southwest, Mexico Southeast, Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Bahamas, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Leeward Is. AB Ant, Puerto Rico, Turks-Caicos Is., Trinidad-Tobago, French Guiana, Guyana, Surinam, Venezuela, Bolivia, Colombia, Brazil West-Central, 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 marker25.523, -81.044 · in the densest population, 475 records (48% of those in range)
Kew's description“subshrub or shrub” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 988 georeferenced records inside the native range; the climate across the range on the 624 of them in the land cells it reads, of 646 placed to within 10 km; the map shows only the 659 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 1272 km away. 16 records outside the WCVP native range not used. 342 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 inside the densest 4° block of the 988 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) Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); (c) Ian McFaul, some rights reserved (CC BY) (4).

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

Heliotropium angiospermum Heliotropium angiospermum Scorpion's-tail Photo: CC BY, Luis Ángel Niño Barreat Carpodiptera cubensis Malvaceae Teucrium cubense Teucrium cubense Small coastal germander Photo: CC BY, Jane WeedenSavia sessiliflora Savia sessiliflora Amansa guapo Photo: CC BY-SA, Kurt MillerKallstroemia maxima Kallstroemia maxima Big caltrop Photo: CC BY, Scott Allen DavisPisonia aculeata Pisonia aculeata Pullback Photo: CC BY, Alexis López Hernández

Other Dicliptera 13 in the reference

Dicliptera brachiata Dicliptera brachiata False Mint Photo: CC BY, Sam KieschnickDicliptera cernua Dicliptera cernua Acanthaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Tony RebeloDicliptera chinensis Dicliptera chinensis Chinese foldwing Photo: CC BY, Yu-Huang WangDicliptera clinopodia Dicliptera clinopodia Acanthaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedDicliptera foetida Dicliptera foetida Acanthaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Dinesh ValkeDicliptera heterostegia Dicliptera heterostegia Acanthaceae Photo: CC BY, Justin PonderDicliptera japonica Dicliptera japonica Small magenta plant Photo: CC BY, Cheng-Te HsuDicliptera paposana Dicliptera paposana Acanthaceae Photo: CC BY, Rodrigo Castillo TapiaDicliptera raui Dicliptera raui Acanthaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Kurt StüberDicliptera resupinata Dicliptera resupinata Arizona foldwing Photo: CC BY, Matt BergerDicliptera squarrosa Dicliptera squarrosa Hummingbird Bush Photo: CC BY, Andrea GantzerDicliptera tinctoria Dicliptera tinctoria Dye foldwing Photo: CC BY, Francisca Wu all 14 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Dactylostegium assurgens; Dactylostegium assurgens var. vahliana; Dactylostegium portoricense; Dianthera angularis; Dianthera sexangularis and 20 more. (GBIF Backbone)

Kew accepts as species of their own Henrya scorpioides: older names in GBIF's record of this species that Kew's World Checklist accepts as other species. (WCVP, RBG Kew, file of 2026-06-04)

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The record

Family
Acanthaceae
Described by
(L.) Juss.
Native to
Texas, Florida, Mexico Central +27
Wild records
988 in range · 659 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
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
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; 20 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (17 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 3 at a zoo; 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 25.50_-80.625, lapse-corrected -2 m at 6.5 °C/km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
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 2026-10-22
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 93 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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