Heliamphora heterodoxa Steyerm.
Sarraceniaceae
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Summary
Heliamphora heterodoxa is a species of marsh pitcher plant native to Venezuela and adjacent Guyana. It was first discovered in 1944 on the slopes interlinking Ptari-tepui and Sororopan-tepui and formally described in 1951.
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About the genus · Heliamphora
The genus Heliamphora contains 24 species of pitcher plants endemic to South America. The species are collectively known as sun pitchers, based on the mistaken notion that the heli of Heliamphora is from the Greek helios, meaning "sun". The name instead derives from the Greek helos, meaning "marsh", so a more accurate translation of their scientific name would be marsh pitcher plants. More on Wikipedia ›
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At a glance
Also known as Heliamphora heterodoxa var. heterodoxa.
Cultivation
Grouped as a carnivorous plant by the genus Heliamphora, which is reliably one kind of plant (archetype table). The table holds no figure for this group, which spans too much for one minimum; the cold floor is the habitat's alone, and no prose comes from the table.
Its year Rain rule: a sharp rainy season, May to November at the habitat (not shifted); the temperature curve is flat (1.6 °C of range), so no growing season is inferred.
This species’ habitat figures, and what two fixed rules read from them.
The rain rule reads a sharp season: 70% of the year's rain (2500 mm of 3239 mm) falls in May to November. The temperature curve is flat, 1.6 °C between the warmest and coldest month, so the growing-season rule does not infer a growing season from it. Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere, within 10° of the equator; with no thermal season there there is no season to reverse, so they are not shifted for a collection elsewhere.
Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the envelope cells: 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 gives a season to reverse. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.
Rain Habitat rain 3239 mm a year, wettest July at 455 mm, driest February at 103 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).
This species’ habitat figures, with their source.
3239 mm a year at the habitat, 2500 mm of it May to November. Wettest month July at 455 mm, driest February at 103 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 2545 mm to 4293 mm (10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year) (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).
CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the envelope cells. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.
Light Open sky over the habitat: 27 to 36 mol/m²/day.
This species’ habitat figures, with their source.
Open sky over the habitat: 27 to 36 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 26, the highest 90th-percentile month 38).
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.
Warmth and air Cold floor 11.7 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).
This species’ habitat figures, with their source.
Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell is 11.7 °C, the absolute minimum 9.6 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 29.5 °C. Monthly means: coldest night 14.1 °C in January (across the envelope cells 12.3 °C to 17.8 °C), warmest day 24.0 °C in October (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: 11.7 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell (NASA POWER).
NASA POWER daily minima and maxima 1981–2024 at the typical cell, lapse-corrected to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA. The cold floor is the figure named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.
Relative humidity at the habitat: 68 to 74% across the year (monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.
CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the envelope cells.
The figures the cards read from are in Climate below, and where they came from in Natural habitat.
Climate across the habitat
Figures by month
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day °C | 22 / 20–25 | 23 / 20–26 | 24 / 21–27 | 24 / 21–27 | 23 / 21–26 | 22 / 20–25 | 22 / 20–25 | 23 / 21–26 | 24 / 22–27 | 24 / 22–27 | 24 / 21–26 | 22 / 20–25 |
| Night °C | 14 / 12–18 | 14 / 12–18 | 14 / 12–18 | 15 / 13–19 | 15 / 14–19 | 15 / 13–19 | 15 / 13–18 | 14 / 13–18 | 15 / 13–18 | 15 / 13–18 | 15 / 13–19 | 15 / 13–18 |
| Rain mm | 129 / 101–197 | 103 / 83–157 | 116 / 92–167 | 215 / 177–298 | 380 / 298–463 | 447 / 372–592 | 455 / 351–570 | 400 / 318–525 | 289 / 194–391 | 280 / 189–361 | 249 / 168–330 | 176 / 133–253 |
| DLI | 30 / 28–32 | 33 / 31–34 | 34 / 33–37 | 31 / 30–34 | 27 / 26–30 | 27 / 26–29 | 30 / 28–32 | 33 / 31–35 | 36 / 34–38 | 34 / 33–36 | 30 / 30–32 | 29 / 27–30 |
| RH % | 72 / 64–73 | 69 / 62–72 | 68 / 62–70 | 69 / 65–71 | 73 / 69–75 | 74 / 71–76 | 73 / 70–75 | 71 / 68–72 | 69 / 66–69 | 69 / 66–69 | 70 / 68–72 | 73 / 66–75 |
Each figure is the median across the 20 grid cells holding the 32 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. Extremes and elevation were read at the typical cell 1685:2365 (5.725, -61.725). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum 9.6 °C, 1st-percentile night 11.7 °C, 99th-percentile day 29.5 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Envelope: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 20 distinct grid cells holding the 32 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 1685:2365 (its coldest month's mean night nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 5.50_-61.875, lapse-corrected +285 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 1472 m (cell mean).
Natural habitat
Papers naming this species
Works whose title or abstract names Heliamphora heterodoxa, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.
Related
Similar habitat climate the 6 species whose habitat climate is nearest this one's: mean day and night, month by month, and rain on a log scale, in calendar order, so a habitat with the same seasons six months out is far, not near. Nothing else counts: not range, not family.
Heliamphora nutans nodding marsh pitcher Heliamphora minor small marsh pitcher
Nepenthes burbidgei NepenthaceaeOther Heliamphora 17 in the reference
Heliamphora nutans nodding marsh pitcher all 18 ›History & registers
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