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Mandevilla boliviensis (J.Veitch f.) Woodson

White dipladenia; White mandevilla

Apocynaceae · Costa Rica, Venezuela +4

Cited as Kew's World Checklist cites it, Mandevilla boliviensis (J.Veitch f.) Woodson: GBIF's backbone key for this page carries the name with another author, (Hook.fil.) Woodson.

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Mandevilla boliviensis, photograph KENPEI, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsMandevilla boliviensis, photograph KENPEI, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsMandevilla boliviensis, photograph Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsMandevilla boliviensis, photograph David J. Stang, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsMandevilla boliviensis, photograph David J. Stang, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsMandevilla boliviensis, photograph Alejandro Bayer Tamayo from Armenia, Colombia, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons 12 photographs ›
Habitat figuresfrom few records
Cold floor (1 night in 100)
21.0°C
Record low 17.8 °C in 44 years, at a typical spot in the range NASA POWER
Warmest month, mean daily high
29°C
Jun, Aug and Sep at the habitat CHELSA
Rain a year (median across the range)
1,097mm
9 months of 25 mm or more in the median year CHELSA
Open-sky light
30–38DLI
Lowest to highest month (DLI) CHELSA
The year in the habitat's months, not shifted
  1. Jan
  2. Feb
  3. Mar
  4. Apr
  5. May
  6. Jun
  7. Jul
  8. Aug
  9. Sep
  10. Oct
  11. Nov
  12. Dec
A sharp rainy season, April to May and August to November (the habitat's months, not shifted), in a year of even temperature. rain rule, CHELSA
Not shifted: the shift rule does not apply to this habitat. The chart is in the habitat's months.

From few records: 5 records in 5 grid cells. The records.

Summary

Mandevilla boliviensis is a species of flowering plant in the dogbane family Apocynaceae, native to a region ranging from Costa Rica south to Bolivia and Brazil. Common names include white mandevilla and white dipladenia.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Mandevilla boliviensis", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Mandevilla

Mandevilla is a genus of tropical and subtropical flowering vines belonging to the family Apocynaceae. It was first described as a genus in 1840. A common name is rocktrumpet.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Mandevilla", CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Seasons

The rain rule reads a sharp season: 70% of the median year's rain (814 mm of 1,073 mm) falls in April to May and August to November. The temperature curve is flat, 2.4 °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, southern hemisphere. The temperature curve moves under 4 °C between the warmest and coldest month, where the shift rule does not apply, so they are not shifted for a collection elsewhere.

Rain

1,073 mm in the median year at the habitat, 814 mm of it April to May and August to November. Wettest month October at 204 mm, driest months (2 at 14 mm). Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 604 mm to 4,350 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 1,097 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 1,073 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: 30 to 38 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 24, the highest 90th-percentile month 42).

Warmth and air
Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range is 21.0 °C, the absolute minimum 17.8 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 38.5 °C. Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 21.9 °C in January (across the grid cells of the range 16.6 °C to 24.0 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 28.6 °C in June and September (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: 21.0 °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: 69 to 74% 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 -277 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

From few records: this habitat climate is read from 5 records in 5 grid cells; a page says so under 12 records or 5 cells, and shows the figures as read.

Habitat months, southern hemisphere

Habitat climate of Mandevilla boliviensis through the yearWarmest months June, August and September, mean daily high 29 °C; coldest month January, mean nightly low 21.9 °C; 1,073 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.10°15°20°25°30°35°40°38.5° 99th-percentile day, NASA POWER17.8° lowest night in 44 years, NASA POWER°C · day and nightcold quarter0100200300400500mm rainDLI 30–38RH 69–74%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain medians and 10th–90th percentile across 5 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 °C26 / 23–2827 / 23–2927 / 23–3028 / 22–3028 / 21–3029 / 21–3028 / 21–3029 / 21–3129 / 22–3028 / 22–2927 / 22–2926 / 23–28
Night °C22 / 17–2422 / 17–2423 / 17–2423 / 17–2524 / 16–2524 / 15–2624 / 15–2524 / 15–2523 / 15–2523 / 16–2523 / 16–2522 / 17–24
Rain mm21 / 6–35314 / 6–31614 / 6–332101 / 25–357139 / 59–40084 / 40–39571 / 28–440101 / 43–458133 / 84–415204 / 124–407136 / 94–38055 / 39–374
DLI32 / 29–3633 / 30–3936 / 29–4234 / 26–4034 / 24–3736 / 25–4038 / 27–4237 / 29–4135 / 28–3732 / 27–3230 / 26–3130 / 26–33
RH %72 / 64–7370 / 64–7370 / 63–7372 / 65–7571 / 67–7470 / 66–7369 / 65–7270 / 66–7271 / 67–7473 / 67–7574 / 67–7572 / 66–74
How this section is made
Each figure is the median across the 5 grid cells holding the 5 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 1576:2149 (11.175, -72.525). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum 17.8 °C, 1st-percentile night 21.0 °C, 99th-percentile day 38.5 °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 5 distinct grid cells holding 5 of the 5 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 1576:2149 (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 11.00_-72.500, lapse-corrected -277 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 109 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.
NativeCosta Rica, Venezuela, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru · 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-16.1, -68.067 · in the densest population, 10 records (36% of those in range)
Kew's description“epiphyte” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 28 georeferenced records inside the native range; the climate across the range on the 5 of them placed to within 10 km; the map shows only the 24 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 33 km away. 20 records outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the climate. 23 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 inside the densest 4° block of the 28 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: KENPEI, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2); Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; David J. Stang, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2); Alejandro Bayer Tamayo from Armenia, Colombia, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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

Melocactus curvispinus Melocactus curvispinus Cactaceae Photo: CC BY, Laura GaudetteManihot carthagenensis Manihot carthagenensis Euphorbiaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Carlos Henrique Morisonia indica Capparaceae Stenocereus griseus Stenocereus griseus Tall candelabra cactus Photo: CC BY, Laura GaudetteSchaefferia frutescens Schaefferia frutescens Florida boxwood Photo: CC0, author not statedAbutilon viscosum Abutilon viscosum Viscid Mallow Photo: CC BY, Tom Field

Other Mandevilla 13 in the reference

Mandevilla foliosa Mandevilla foliosa Apocynaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Oscar Alejandro Morales Juárez Mandevilla fragrans Apocynaceae Mandevilla hirsuta Mandevilla hirsuta Savanna Flower Photo: CC BY, Samuel GUIRAUDOUMandevilla hypoleuca Mandevilla hypoleuca Davis Mountain rocktrumpet Photo: CC BY, Ricardo Betancourt SánchezMandevilla lanuginosa Mandevilla lanuginosa Tamaulipan Rocktrumpet Photo: CC BY, Reid HardinMandevilla laxa Mandevilla laxa Chilean-jasmine Photo: CC BY, River AhlquistMandevilla macrosiphon Mandevilla macrosiphon Plateau rocktrumpet Photo: CC BY, RachelMandevilla pentlandiana Mandevilla pentlandiana Apocynaceae Photo: CC BY, Tomás Carranza PeralesMandevilla petraea Mandevilla petraea Apocynaceae Photo: CC BY, Andres CavalloMandevilla pohliana Mandevilla pohliana Apocynaceae Photo: CC BY, Victor Farjalla PontesMandevilla pubescens Mandevilla pubescens Apocynaceae Photo: CC BY, Hector MonteroMandevilla sanderi Mandevilla sanderi Brazilian-jasmine Photo: CC BY, Raúl A. Ruiz M. all 14 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Dipladenia bella; Dipladenia boliviensis; Mandevilla bella; Mandevilla cereola; Mandevilla pittieri. (GBIF Backbone)

Kew accepts as species of their own Mandevilla permixta: older names in GBIF's record of this species that Kew's World Checklist accepts as other species. (WCVP, RBG Kew, file of 2026-06-04)

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The record

Family
Apocynaceae
Described by
(J.Veitch f.) Woodson
Native to
Costa Rica, Venezuela, Bolivia +3
Wild records
28 in range · 24 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 2026-10-22GBIF's key 3618936 is Mandevilla boliviensis (Hook.fil.) Woodson; the page links Kew's Mandevilla boliviensis (J.Veitch f.) Woodson, and the name is cited as Kew cites it
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; 3 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (3 at a botanic garden or arboretum; 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 11.00_-72.500, lapse-corrected -277 m at 6.5 °C/km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 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 nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
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 21 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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