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Miconia dependens (Pav. ex D.Don) Judd & Majure

Melastomataceae · Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southwest +26

Cited as Kew's World Checklist cites it, Miconia dependens (Pav. ex D.Don) Judd & Majure: GBIF's backbone key for this page carries the name with another author, (D.Don) Judd & Majure.

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Habitat figures
Cold floor (1 night in 100)
16.5°C
Record low 13.7 °C in 44 years, at a typical spot in the range NASA POWER
Warmest month, mean daily high
29°C
Mar, Apr, Aug and Sep at the habitat CHELSA
Rain a year (median across the range)
2,671mm
12 months of 25 mm or more in the median year CHELSA
Open-sky light
29–35DLI
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 October (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.

Cultivation

Seasons

The rain rule reads a sharp season: 70% of the median year's rain (2,008 mm of 2,821 mm) falls in April to October. The temperature curve is flat, 1.7 °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. 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

2,821 mm in the median year at the habitat, 2,008 mm of it April to October. Wettest month May at 346 mm, driest month January at 119 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 1,673 mm to 4,872 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 2,671 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 2,821 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 35 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 41).

Warmth and air
Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range is 16.5 °C, the absolute minimum 13.7 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 39.4 °C. Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 20.3 °C in January (across the grid cells of the range 14.9 °C to 23.5 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 29.0 °C in September (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: 16.5 °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: 64 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. NASA POWER daily minima and maxima over 44 years at a typical spot in the range, lapse-corrected -47 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 Miconia dependens through the yearWarmest months March, April, August and September, mean daily high 29 °C; coldest month January, mean nightly low 20.3 °C; 2,821 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.10°15°20°25°30°35°40°45°39.4° 99th-percentile day, NASA POWER13.7° lowest night in 44 years, NASA POWER°C · day and nightcold quarter0100200300400500600mm rainDLI 29–35RH 64–68%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain medians and 10th–90th percentile across 200 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 °C27 / 23–3128 / 24–3229 / 24–3129 / 24–3128 / 23–3128 / 23–3028 / 23–3029 / 24–3129 / 24–3128 / 23–3127 / 23–3027 / 23–30
Night °C20 / 15–2421 / 15–2421 / 16–2422 / 16–2422 / 16–2422 / 16–2422 / 16–2422 / 16–2422 / 16–2422 / 16–2421 / 16–2421 / 15–23
Rain mm119 / 28–400125 / 46–316173 / 35–333271 / 46–450346 / 103–576324 / 103–538251 / 70–525267 / 74–549277 / 63–523272 / 67–548222 / 94–459174 / 47–371
DLI31 / 23–3632 / 26–3635 / 29–3831 / 26–4129 / 24–4129 / 24–3732 / 25–3934 / 27–4033 / 27–4032 / 25–3830 / 24–3429 / 22–34
RH %66 / 55–7165 / 55–7064 / 57–7166 / 58–7268 / 60–7368 / 63–7267 / 60–7266 / 59–7167 / 61–7267 / 62–7367 / 62–7367 / 60–71

Records on both sides of the equator: the 19 cells at least 10° south of it have seasons six months apart and are left out, not combined into a year no place has. These figures are across the 200 cells that remain: the 48 at least 10° north and the 152 within 10° of the equator, which stay in either way.

How this section is made
Each figure is the median across the 200 grid cells holding the 248 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 1438:1712 (18.075, -94.375). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum 13.7 °C, 1st-percentile night 16.5 °C, 99th-percentile day 39.4 °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 200 distinct grid cells holding 248 of the 268 in-range records on the northern side of the equator (48 cells poleward of 10° north, 19 poleward of 10° south: the two sides' seasons are not combined, and cells within 10° of the equator stay in); extremes and elevation at the typical cell 1438:1712 (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 18.00_-94.375, lapse-corrected -47 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 16 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 Gulf, Mexico Southwest, Mexico Southeast, Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Cuba, Jamaica, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is., French Guiana, Guyana, Surinam, Venezuela, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil West-Central, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Brazil North, Brazil South · introduced: Malaya · 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 marker6.671, -74.984 · in the densest population, 316 records (24% 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 1323 georeferenced records inside the native range; the climate across the range on the 248 of them in the land cells it reads, of 268 placed to within 10 km; the map shows only the 1132 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 42 km away. 31 records outside the WCVP native range not used. 1055 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 1323 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) Erick Vélez Sánchez, some rights reserved (CC BY) (3); (c) Diogo Luiz, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) Kozue Kawakami, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) (2).

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

Solanum jamaicense Solanum jamaicense Jamaican nightshade Photo: CC0, author not statedMiconia prasina Miconia prasina Granadillo bobo Photo: CC BY, Lon BrehmerCyperus luzulae Cyperus luzulae Cyperaceae Photo: CC BY, Matteo BellucciAsplenium serratum Asplenium serratum Wild birdnest fern Photo: CC BY, Yuri SofronovAcalypha diversifolia Acalypha diversifolia Euphorbiaceae Photo: CC BY, Thalia M. MiteCalophyllum brasiliense Calophyllum brasiliense Santa maria Photo: CC BY, Gabriel Fernandes

Other Miconia 26 in the reference

Miconia albicans Miconia albicans Melastomataceae Photo: CC BY, avocatMiconia argentea Miconia argentea Silver miconia Photo: CC BY, Alexis López HernándezMiconia australis Miconia australis Melastomataceae Photo: CC BY, John LeszczynskiMiconia bicolor Miconia bicolor Johnnyberry Photo: CC BY, Tom FieldMiconia calvescens Miconia calvescens Purple plague Photo: CC0, author not statedMiconia caudata Miconia caudata Melastomataceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Ángela Patricia Rojas CortésMiconia crenata Miconia crenata Koster's curse Photo: CC0, author not statedMiconia crinita Miconia crinita Melastomataceae Photo: CC BY, Nicolás Baresch UribeMiconia crocea Miconia crocea Melastomataceae Photo: CC BY, Esteban PovedaMiconia dolichorrhyncha Miconia dolichorrhyncha Melastomataceae Photo: CC BY, Ben JobsonMiconia impetiolaris Miconia impetiolaris Camasey De Costilla Photo: CC BY, Tom FieldMiconia longifolia Miconia longifolia Melastomataceae Photo: CC0, author not stated all 27 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Clidemia capitellata; Clidemia capitellata var. capitellata; Clidemia capitellata var. dependens; Clidemia capitellata var. levelii; Clidemia capitellata var. neglecta and 17 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Melastomataceae
Described by
(Pav. ex D.Don) Judd & Majure
Native to
Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southwest, Mexico Southeast +25
Wild records
1323 in range · 1132 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 10738960 is Miconia dependens (D.Don) Judd & Majure; the page links Kew's Miconia dependens (Pav. ex D.Don) Judd & Majure, 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; 14 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (7 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 1 at a herbarium, 6 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 18.00_-94.375, lapse-corrected -47 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 151 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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