24 photographs › At a glance
- Jan, shaded, under 5 mm of rain
- Feb, shaded
- Mar, shaded
- Apr, shaded, under 5 mm of rain
- May
- Jun
- Jul
- Aug
- Sep
- Oct
- Nov, shaded, under 5 mm of rain
- Dec, shaded, under 5 mm of rain
Cultivation
Seasons
Rain at the habitat is 78 mm in the median year (across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Under 120 mm the rain rule reads no rainy season, and the growing-season rule infers nothing from it. The temperature rule reads the cooler six months as May to October. Months are the habitat's, southern hemisphere; shifted six months for a northern-hemisphere collection: November to April.
Rain
78 mm in the median year at the habitat. Wettest months (2 at 14 mm), driest months (2 at 3 mm); 4 months under 5 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 47 mm to 1,045 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 92 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 78 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: 32 to 45 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 53).
Warmth and air
Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 12.2 °C in August (across the grid cells of the range 3.9 °C to 14.6 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 22.4 °C in February (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: none read. The nearest figure is 12.2 °C, the coldest month's mean nightly low, 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.
Relative humidity at the habitat: 63 to 70% 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
Mean daily high from 18 °C in Jun, Jul and Aug to 22 °C in Jan, Feb and Mar; mean nightly low from 12 °C in Aug to 19 °C in Feb. The cold quarter, Jul to Sep, is the three months around the coldest month's mean nightly low. 78 mm of rain in the median year (the twelve monthly medians added), the wettest months (2 at 14 mm). The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 17 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 | 22 / 15–24 | 22 / 15–25 | 22 / 15–25 | 21 / 15–23 | 19 / 16–22 | 18 / 15–20 | 18 / 14–20 | 18 / 15–20 | 19 / 16–20 | 19 / 17–21 | 20 / 17–22 | 21 / 16–23 |
| Night °C | 18 / 8–20 | 19 / 8–21 | 18 / 7–21 | 17 / 6–19 | 15 / 5–17 | 14 / 4–16 | 13 / 3–15 | 12 / 4–15 | 13 / 5–15 | 14 / 6–15 | 15 / 7–16 | 17 / 8–18 |
| Rain mm | 9 / 4–136 | 14 / 4–126 | 14 / 3–167 | 5 / 2–98 | 3 / 2–47 | 4 / 2–28 | 4 / 2–20 | 5 / 3–26 | 5 / 3–52 | 3 / 2–92 | 5 / 2–99 | 7 / 2–106 |
| DLI | 39 / 35–40 | 37 / 34–40 | 37 / 33–39 | 36 / 31–40 | 34 / 26–39 | 32 / 21–36 | 33 / 22–37 | 37 / 27–42 | 41 / 35–47 | 44 / 36–53 | 45 / 37–53 | 42 / 36–48 |
| RH % | 70 / 65–73 | 69 / 66–72 | 68 / 65–71 | 68 / 58–71 | 65 / 48–72 | 65 / 41–72 | 64 / 41–71 | 64 / 42–70 | 63 / 44–70 | 64 / 48–70 | 66 / 53–71 | 68 / 59–71 |
The daily extremes were not used: the record low, 13.3 °C, is warmer than the coldest month's mean nightly low across the range, 12.2 °C, which no night series of the habitat can give. 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 13.3 °C, 1st-percentile night 15.2 °C.
How this section is made
Natural habitat
How this section is made
Photographs
Photographs: David F. Belmonte, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF; Constanza Vargas Villegas, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF; GREGORY ANTHONY PAUCA TANCO, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF (4).
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Names & registers
Also known as Malva haenkeana; Malva peruviana; Malvastrum peruvianum; Malvastrum peruvianum var. elongatum; Malveopsis peruviana and 3 more. (GBIF Backbone)
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 2026-10-22
gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 23 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (21 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 2 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)climate answeredasked 2026-10-22climate.extremes answeredasked 2026-10-22NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell -17.00_-71.875, lapse-corrected -597 m at 6.5 °C/km; read, and set aside: the record low, 13.3 °C, is warmer than the coldest month's mean nightly low across the range, 12.2 °C, which no night series of the habitat can give, so no cold floor is shownwikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22inat.taxon not askedinat.photos.wild not askedinat.photos.cultivated not askedgbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshotEvery 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 23 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.