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Kohleria rugata (Scheidw.) L.P.Kvist & L.E.Skog

Gesneriaceae · Mexico Southwest, Mexico Southeast

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Habitat figures
Cold floor (1 night in 100)
10.2°C
Record low 5.7 °C in 44 years, at a typical spot in the range NASA POWER
Warmest month, mean daily high
30°C
Apr at the habitat CHELSA
Rain a year (median across the range)
1,475mm
8 months of 25 mm or more in the median year CHELSA
Open-sky light
29–43DLI
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 September, 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 (1,077 mm of 1,452 mm) falls in June to September, warmer than the year (wet-season mean 22.5 °C against a yearly mean of 21.7 °C). Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: December to March.

Rain

1,452 mm in the median year at the habitat, 1,077 mm of it June to September. Wettest month September at 304 mm, driest months (3 at 12 mm). Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 1,142 mm to 2,790 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 1,475 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 1,452 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: 29 to 43 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 25, the highest 90th-percentile month 47).

Warmth and air
Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range is 10.2 °C, the absolute minimum 5.7 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 37.8 °C. Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 14.5 °C in January (across the grid cells of the range 9.9 °C to 17.4 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 29.6 °C in April (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: 10.2 °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: 57 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. NASA POWER daily minima and maxima over 44 years at a typical spot in the range, lapse-corrected -201 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 Kohleria rugata through the yearWarmest month April, mean daily high 30 °C; coldest month January, mean nightly low 14.5 °C; 1,452 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°37.8° 99th-percentile day, NASA POWER5.7° lowest night in 44 years, NASA POWER°C · day and nightcold quarter0100200300400500600mm rainDLI 29–43RH 57–70%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain medians and 10th–90th percentile across 53 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 °C25 / 22–2926 / 24–3028 / 26–3230 / 27–3329 / 26–3227 / 23–3027 / 23–3026 / 23–2926 / 22–2925 / 22–2825 / 22–2825 / 22–29
Night °C15 / 10–1715 / 11–1816 / 11–1917 / 13–2119 / 14–2219 / 15–2219 / 14–2119 / 14–2118 / 14–2118 / 13–2016 / 12–1915 / 10–18
Rain mm12 / 4–4612 / 7–4512 / 5–4126 / 10–69115 / 52–228263 / 208–461242 / 180–458268 / 199–511304 / 220–547140 / 104–28743 / 18–10715 / 7–59
DLI31 / 27–3536 / 32–3941 / 38–4543 / 41–4740 / 39–4434 / 32–3736 / 33–3935 / 32–3831 / 28–3331 / 28–3430 / 27–3429 / 25–33
RH %60 / 54–6658 / 52–6457 / 51–6158 / 50–6162 / 56–6568 / 64–7067 / 64–7068 / 65–7170 / 67–7368 / 64–7164 / 60–6961 / 56–67
How this section is made
Each figure is the median across the 53 grid cells holding the 92 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 1451:1617 (17.425, -99.125). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum 5.7 °C, 1st-percentile night 10.2 °C, 99th-percentile day 37.8 °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 53 distinct grid cells holding 92 of the 92 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 1451:1617 (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 17.50_-99.375, lapse-corrected -201 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 1012 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.
NativeMexico Southwest, Mexico Southeast · 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 marker16.797, -93.09 · in the densest population, 97 records (86% of those in range)
Kew's description“wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 113 georeferenced records inside the native range; the climate across the range on the 92 of them placed to within 10 km; the map shows only the 74 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 5 km away. 21 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 of the 113 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) José Javier Barrios Flores, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) Matteo Cassella, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA); (c) Liliana Ramírez-Freire, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); (c) Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2).

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

Trichocentrum microchilum Trichocentrum microchilum Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Arne and Bent Larsen, Haarby, DenmarkEuphorbia leucocephala Euphorbia leucocephala Pascuita Photo: CC BY, Saban-Sequén, E.A.Hauya elegans Hauya elegans Onagraceae Photo: CC BY, Francisco Emilio Roldán VelascoAchimenes longiflora Achimenes longiflora Cupid's bow Photo: CC BY, Dominic GentilcoreAgave kewensis Agave kewensis Grijalva's Agave Photo: CC BY, Juan Cruzado CortésRuellia breedlovei Ruellia breedlovei Acanthaceae Photo: CC BY, Neptalí Ramírez Marcial

Other Kohleria 9 in the reference

Kohleria affinis Kohleria affinis Gesneriaceae Photo: CC BY, William StephensKohleria allenii Kohleria allenii Gesneriaceae Photo: CC BY, Matt BergerKohleria amabilis Kohleria amabilis Gesneriaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedKohleria hirsuta Kohleria hirsuta Gesneriaceae Photo: CC BY, Jon Paul RodríguezKohleria inaequalis Kohleria inaequalis Gesneriaceae Photo: CC BY, Connor Connolly-MoylsKohleria spicata Kohleria spicata Spiked kohleria Photo: CC BY, Alexis López HernándezKohleria tubiflora Kohleria tubiflora Gesneriaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedKohleria villosa Kohleria villosa Gesneriaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedKohleria warszewiczii Kohleria warszewiczii Gesneriaceae Photo: CC BY, Samuel Peláez Vélez

Names & registers

Also known as Corytholoma maculatum; Gesneria maculata; Gesneria rugata; Gloxinia insignis; Kohleria lanata. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Gesneriaceae
Described by
(Scheidw.) L.P.Kvist & L.E.Skog
Native to
Mexico Southwest, Mexico Southeast
Wild records
113 in range · 74 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
Habitat climate climate answeredasked 2026-10-22
Daily extremes (NASA POWER) climate.extremes answeredasked 2026-10-22NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 17.50_-99.375, lapse-corrected -201 m at 6.5 °C/km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 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 18 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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