Grammitis moniliformis (Lag.) Proctor
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At a glance
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Cultivation
Seasons
The rain rule reads no short rainy season: 70% of the median year's rain (1,677 mm of 2,197 mm) takes 8 months, April to November. Mean temperature moves 1.2 °C between the warmest and coldest month. Months are the habitat's, northern 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
2,197 mm in the median year at the habitat, 1,677 mm of it April to November. Wettest month May at 235 mm, driest month January at 84 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 1,334 mm to 3,880 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 2,180 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 2,197 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: 27 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 22, the highest 90th-percentile month 43).
Warmth and air
Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 6.1 °C in January (across the grid cells of the range 2.3 °C to 11.6 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 15.5 °C in March (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: none read. The nearest figure is 6.1 °C, the coldest month's mean nightly low, January, 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: 65 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. 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, northern hemisphere
Mean daily high from 14 °C in Jun, Jul and Dec to 16 °C in Mar; mean nightly low from 6 °C in Jan, Feb and Dec to 7 °C in Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct and Nov. The cold quarter, Dec to Feb, is the three months around the coldest month's mean nightly low, centred on the 3 months in a row that tie for it. 2,197 mm of rain in the median year (the twelve monthly medians added), the wettest month May. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 189 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 | 15 / 10–21 | 15 / 11–22 | 16 / 11–23 | 15 / 11–23 | 15 / 10–23 | 14 / 10–23 | 14 / 10–23 | 15 / 10–23 | 15 / 11–23 | 15 / 11–22 | 15 / 10–22 | 14 / 10–21 |
| Night °C | 6 / 2–12 | 6 / 3–12 | 7 / 3–12 | 7 / 3–13 | 7 / 3–15 | 7 / 3–15 | 7 / 2–14 | 7 / 2–14 | 7 / 2–14 | 7 / 3–13 | 7 / 3–12 | 6 / 2–12 |
| Rain mm | 84 / 24–221 | 119 / 22–253 | 177 / 32–316 | 232 / 64–409 | 235 / 88–483 | 214 / 82–464 | 189 / 62–454 | 184 / 55–427 | 202 / 81–409 | 221 / 110–438 | 200 / 62–384 | 140 / 35–264 |
| DLI | 31 / 28–35 | 32 / 28–37 | 31 / 27–41 | 28 / 24–43 | 27 / 23–41 | 27 / 22–36 | 28 / 24–37 | 31 / 27–37 | 32 / 27–36 | 30 / 24–34 | 29 / 24–33 | 30 / 26–33 |
| RH % | 65 / 56–71 | 66 / 55–72 | 67 / 55–72 | 68 / 57–72 | 67 / 61–72 | 68 / 63–73 | 67 / 61–73 | 66 / 60–71 | 66 / 61–71 | 67 / 63–71 | 67 / 61–71 | 66 / 59–71 |
The daily extremes were not used: the correction for elevation, +1786 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 -4.2 °C, 1st-percentile night -0.6 °C.
How this section is made
Natural habitat
This species has no GBIF key of its own. Its records are GBIF's under the key of the name Kew's World Checklist holds as this plant: 5566998 (Melpomene moniliformis (Lag. ex Sw.) A.R.Sm. & R.C.Moran, 1500 records). No name was matched to GBIF; the keys are read from Kew's synonymy. How.
How this section is made
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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
kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Grammitis moniliformis (Lag.) Proctor (plant_name_id 3188122), read from Kew's names filegbif.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 askedgbif.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 askedgbif.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 askedwcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21this 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; 1500 records of GBIF's key 5566998, Melpomene moniliformis (Lag. ex Sw.) A.R.Sm. & R.C.Moran (Kew's file holds it as Melpomene moniliformis (Lag.) A.R.Sm. & R.C.Moran (synonym under Grammitis moniliformis (Lag.) Proctor)): the GBIF downloadclimate answeredasked 2026-10-22climate.extremes answeredasked 2026-10-22NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 4.50_-74.375, lapse-corrected +1786 m at 6.5 °C/km; read, and set aside: the correction for elevation, +1786 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 shownwikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 113162-2, POWO 113162-2wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22inat.taxon not askedinat.photos.wild not askedinat.photos.cultivated not askedgbif.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 askedcommons 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 106 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.