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Mappia nimmoniana (J.Graham) Byng & Stull

Icacinaceae · Nansei-shoto, Taiwan +10

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Mappia nimmoniana, photograph FarEnd2018, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsMappia nimmoniana, photograph Dinesh Valke from Thane, India, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsMappia nimmoniana, photograph Dinesh Valke from Thane, India, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsMappia nimmoniana, photograph Dinesh Valke from Thane, India, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsMappia nimmoniana, photograph Dinesh Valke from Thane, India, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsMappia nimmoniana, photograph Yercaud-elango, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 9 photographs ›
Habitat figures
Cold floor (1 night in 100)
12.3°C
Record low 9.7 °C in 44 years, at a typical spot in the range NASA POWER
Warmest month, mean daily high
32°C
Mar and Apr at the habitat CHELSA
Rain a year (median across the range)
3,711mm
8 months of 25 mm or more in the median year CHELSA
Open-sky light
20–43DLI
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
A rainy season, June to August, neither the cool nor the warm half of the year. rain rule, CHELSA
Northern hemisphere unless you set your site. The chart is in the habitat's months.

Summary

Mappia nimmoniana is a species of flowering plant that grow naturally in Indo-Malesia and China .

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Mappia nimmoniana", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Seasons

The rain rule reads a rainy season with no name: 70% of the median year's rain (2,599 mm of 3,447 mm) falls in June to August, whose mean temperature, 22.4 °C, is within half a degree of the year's, 22.9 °C, so it is neither the cooler nor the warmer part of the year. Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: December to February.

Rain

3,447 mm in the median year at the habitat, 2,599 mm of it June to August. Wettest month July at 1,144 mm, driest month February at 1 mm; 2 months under 5 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 1,737 mm to 4,890 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 3,711 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 3,447 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: 20 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 17, the highest 90th-percentile month 46).

Warmth and air
Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range is 12.3 °C, the absolute minimum 9.7 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 36.4 °C. Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 15.5 °C in January (across the grid cells of the range 11.4 °C to 18.1 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 32.3 °C in April (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: 12.3 °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: 50 to 81% 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 +187 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 Mappia nimmoniana through the yearWarmest months March and April, mean daily high 32 °C; coldest month January, mean nightly low 15.5 °C; 3,447 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.5°10°15°20°25°30°35°40°36.4° 99th-percentile day, NASA POWER9.7° lowest night in 44 years, NASA POWER°C · day and nightcold quarter0500100015002000mm rainDLI 20–43RH 50–81%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain medians and 10th–90th percentile across 121 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 °C28 / 21–3030 / 22–3232 / 24–3332 / 25–3431 / 25–3326 / 23–2824 / 22–2624 / 22–2626 / 23–2727 / 22–2928 / 22–3027 / 21–29
Night °C16 / 11–1816 / 13–1818 / 15–2020 / 17–2221 / 17–2321 / 17–2320 / 16–2220 / 16–2220 / 16–2219 / 15–2217 / 14–2016 / 12–19
Rain mm3 / 2–341 / 1–4012 / 3–12932 / 11–230128 / 60–303706 / 231–10921144 / 170–1753749 / 219–1173368 / 189–520237 / 155–41157 / 34–25210 / 7–84
DLI36 / 34–3840 / 38–4143 / 40–4443 / 36–4639 / 31–4324 / 21–3020 / 17–2721 / 18–2927 / 26–3231 / 27–3332 / 27–3432 / 30–34
RH %50 / 47–5751 / 44–5754 / 45–6160 / 51–6965 / 61–7377 / 68–8281 / 68–8580 / 68–8475 / 67–7765 / 58–7256 / 51–6751 / 48–62
How this section is made
Each figure is the median across the 121 grid cells holding the 239 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 1551:5109 (12.425, 75.475). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum 9.7 °C, 1st-percentile night 12.3 °C, 99th-percentile day 36.4 °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 121 distinct grid cells holding 239 of the 239 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 1551:5109 (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 12.50_75.625, lapse-corrected +187 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 788 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.

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: 3596916 (Nothapodytes nimmoniana (J.Graham) Mabb., 595 records). No name was matched to GBIF; the keys are read from Kew's synonymy. How.

NativeNansei-shoto, Taiwan, Assam, East Himalaya, India, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines, Sumatera · 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 marker10.352, 76.926 · in the densest population, 234 records (49% of those in range)
Kew's description“shrub or tree” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 473 georeferenced records inside the native range; the climate across the range on the 239 of them placed to within 10 km; the map shows only the 271 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 214 km away. 16 records outside the WCVP native range not used. 234 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.
Other GBIF keysRecords also from GBIF's key 3596916 (Nothapodytes nimmoniana (J.Graham) Mabb.): Kew's file holds it as Nothapodytes nimmoniana (J.Graham) Mabb. (synonym under Mappia nimmoniana (J.Graham) Byng & Stull); 595 records, from GBIF's download.
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 473 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: FarEnd2018, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Dinesh Valke from Thane, India, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (4); Yercaud-elango, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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

Elaeagnus conferta Elaeagnus conferta Eastern Silverberry Photo: CC BY, Siddarth MachadoTetrapilus dioicus Tetrapilus dioicus Indian olive Photo: CC BY, T R Shankar RamanAerides crispa Aerides crispa Curled Aerides Photo: CC BY-SA, Vikas D PrasadCallicarpa tomentosa Callicarpa tomentosa Great woolly Malayan-lilac Photo: CC BY-SA, sneha_forestryHygrophila pinnatifida Hygrophila pinnatifida Miramar Weed Photo: CC BY-SA, Dinesh ValkeArdisia humilis Ardisia humilis Low shoebutton Photo: CC BY, Zac Peterson

Other Mappia 1 in the reference

Mappia pittosporoides Icacinaceae

Names & registers

Also known as Mappia cambodiana; Mappia wightiana; Mappia foetida; Neoleretia dimorpha; Nothapodytes gardneriana and 18 more. (WCVP, RBG Kew)

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The record

Family
Icacinaceae
Described by
(J.Graham) Byng & Stull
Native to
Nansei-shoto, Taiwan, Assam +9
Wild records
473 in range · 271 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
Kew's names (WCVP) kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Mappia nimmoniana (J.Graham) Byng & Stull (plant_name_id 3228646), read from Kew's names file
GBIF species record gbif.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 asked
GBIF synonyms gbif.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 asked
GBIF common names gbif.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 asked
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.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; 595 records of GBIF's key 3596916, Nothapodytes nimmoniana (J.Graham) Mabb. (Kew's file holds it as Nothapodytes nimmoniana (J.Graham) Mabb. (synonym under Mappia nimmoniana (J.Graham) Byng & Stull)): the GBIF download; 3 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (1 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 2 at a zoo; 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 12.50_75.625, lapse-corrected +187 m at 6.5 °C/km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 77183920-1, POWO 77183920-1
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist taxon inat.taxon not asked
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.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 asked
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 23 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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