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Eulophia picta (R.Br.) Ormerod

Orchidaceae · China South-Central, Hainan +40

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Habitat figures
Cold floor (1 night in 100)
12.1°C
Record low 7.2 °C in 44 years, at a typical spot in the range NASA POWER
Warmest month, mean daily high
28°C
Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep at the habitat CHELSA
Rain a year (median across the range)
2,525mm
12 months of 25 mm or more in the median year CHELSA
Open-sky light
26–35DLI
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 November to March (May to September 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.

Cultivation

Seasons

The rain rule reads a summer growing season: 70% of the median year's rain (1,677 mm of 2,221 mm) falls in May to September, warmer than the year (wet-season mean 26.4 °C against a yearly mean of 24.1 °C). Months are the habitat's, southern hemisphere; shifted six months for a northern-hemisphere collection: November to March.

Rain

2,221 mm in the median year at the habitat, 1,677 mm of it May to September. Wettest month August at 416 mm, driest month January at 43 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 1,555 mm to 3,328 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 2,525 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 2,221 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 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 21, the highest 90th-percentile month 43).

Warmth and air
Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range is 12.1 °C, the absolute minimum 7.2 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 36.2 °C. Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 16.4 °C in January (across the grid cells of the range 10.8 °C to 25.1 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 28.2 °C in June (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: 12.1 °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: 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. NASA POWER daily minima and maxima over 44 years at a typical spot in the range, lapse-corrected -873 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 Eulophia picta through the yearWarmest months April, May, June, July, August and September, mean daily high 28 °C; coldest month January, mean nightly low 16.4 °C; 2,221 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.5°10°15°20°25°30°35°40°36.2° 99th-percentile day, NASA POWER7.2° lowest night in 44 years, NASA POWER°C · day and nightcold quarter0200400600800mm rainDLI 26–35RH 63–68%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain medians and 10th–90th percentile across 116 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 / 18–2926 / 19–3026 / 22–3228 / 24–3328 / 26–3228 / 26–3128 / 26–3028 / 26–3028 / 26–3027 / 25–3026 / 23–2925 / 19–29
Night °C16 / 11–2517 / 12–2519 / 15–2521 / 17–2623 / 19–2624 / 19–2623 / 18–2623 / 18–2623 / 19–2622 / 18–2620 / 15–2617 / 12–25
Rain mm43 / 13–35463 / 16–33581 / 29–279105 / 46–250214 / 75–377351 / 93–553379 / 64–606416 / 59–629317 / 43–468125 / 57–32578 / 30–26749 / 15–298
DLI27 / 21–3631 / 23–3934 / 27–4235 / 30–4334 / 30–4133 / 28–3534 / 25–3732 / 26–3731 / 28–3730 / 27–4027 / 23–3926 / 21–35
RH %63 / 56–7064 / 55–6964 / 55–7064 / 55–7066 / 56–7067 / 62–7267 / 63–7268 / 61–7167 / 61–7165 / 59–7064 / 58–6963 / 57–70
How this section is made
Each figure is the median across the 116 grid cells holding the 166 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 1333:6026 (23.325, 121.325). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum 7.2 °C, 1st-percentile night 12.1 °C, 99th-percentile day 36.2 °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 116 distinct grid cells holding 166 of the 166 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 1333:6026 (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 23.50_121.250, lapse-corrected -873 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 159 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: 5307884 (Cymbidium pictum R.Br., 0 records), 7414167 (Geodorum pictum (R.Br.) Lindl., 2 records), 11097079 (Eulophia picta (R.Br.) Ormerod, 1514 records). No name was matched to GBIF; the keys are read from Kew's synonymy. How.

NativeChina South-Central, Hainan, China Southeast, Nansei-shoto, Ogasawara-shoto, Taiwan, Assam, Bangladesh, East Himalaya, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, West Himalaya, Andaman Is., Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Nicobar Is., Thailand, Vietnam, Borneo, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Bismarck Archipelago, New Guinea, Solomon Is., Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia, Fiji, Niue, New Caledonia, Samoa, Tonga, Vanuatu, Caroline Is., Marianas · 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-27.308, 153.056 · in the densest population, 884 records (63% of those in range)
Kew's description“pseudobulbous geophyte” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 1409 georeferenced records inside the native range; the climate across the range on the 166 of them placed to within 10 km; the map shows only the 217 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 29 km away. 34 records outside the WCVP native range not used. 1243 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 5307884 (Cymbidium pictum R.Br.): Kew's file holds it as Cymbidium pictum R.Br. (synonym under Eulophia picta (R.Br.) Ormerod); 0 records, from GBIF's search API on the day of the build.Records also from GBIF's key 7414167 (Geodorum pictum (R.Br.) Lindl.): Kew's file holds it as Geodorum pictum (R.Br.) Lindl. (synonym under Eulophia picta (R.Br.) Ormerod); 2 records, from GBIF's download.Records also from GBIF's key 11097079 (Eulophia picta (R.Br.) Ormerod): Kew's file holds it as Eulophia picta (R.Br.) Ormerod (accepted); 1,514 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 of the 1409 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: Vinayaraj, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (6).

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

Blumea balsamifera Blumea balsamifera Ngai camphor Photo: CC0, author not statedAntidesma montanum Antidesma montanum Phyllanthaceae Photo: CC BY, Sindhu HaridasUrena lobata Urena lobata Caesarweed Photo: CC BY, xanderferretAlpinia galanga Alpinia galanga Greater galangal Photo: CC BY, Kiwi ShenTrichosanthes costata Trichosanthes costata Cucurbitaceae Photo: CC BY, Muhammad HEEMBOOEhretia microphylla Ehretia microphylla Fukien-tea Photo: CC BY, Kevin Faccenda

Other Eulophia 17 in the reference

Eulophia alta Eulophia alta Wild coco Photo: CC0, author not statedEulophia andamanensis Eulophia andamanensis Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, payalmEulophia calcarata Eulophia calcarata Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Michael A. AlcornEulophia decaryana Eulophia decaryana Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, amantedarmaninEulophia euglossa Eulophia euglossa Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Sandra Keller Eulophia falcigera Orchidaceae Eulophia graminea Eulophia graminea Chinese Crown Orchid Photo: CC BY, James HardeeEulophia guineensis Eulophia guineensis Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Skjold SøndergaardEulophia maculata Eulophia maculata African Spotted Orchid Photo: CC BY, Liliana Ramírez-FreireEulophia pardalina Eulophia pardalina Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Marcos Antonio CampacciEulophia petersii Eulophia petersii Desert Orchid Photo: CC BY, Benjamin FredlundEulophia pulchra Eulophia pulchra Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, naturalistchu all 18 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Eulophia cernua; Geodorum formosanum; Geodorum fucatum; Arethusa glutinosa; Cymbidium nutans and 26 more. (WCVP, RBG Kew)

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The record

Family
Orchidaceae
Described by
(R.Br.) Ormerod
Native to
China South-Central, Hainan, China Southeast +39
Wild records
1409 in range · 217 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 Eulophia picta (R.Br.) Ormerod (plant_name_id 525434), 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 5307884, Cymbidium pictum R.Br. (Kew's file holds it as Cymbidium pictum R.Br. (synonym under Eulophia picta (R.Br.) Ormerod)): GBIF occurrence search API; 2 records of GBIF's key 7414167, Geodorum pictum (R.Br.) Lindl. (Kew's file holds it as Geodorum pictum (R.Br.) Lindl. (synonym under Eulophia picta (R.Br.) Ormerod)): the GBIF download; 1514 records of GBIF's key 11097079, Eulophia picta (R.Br.) Ormerod (Kew's file holds it as Eulophia picta (R.Br.) Ormerod (accepted)): the GBIF download; 10 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (6 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 4 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 23.50_121.250, lapse-corrected -873 m at 6.5 °C/km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 77173828-1, POWO 77173828-1
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 3 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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