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Myrsine coriacea (Sw.) R.Br. ex Roem. & Schult.

Primulaceae · Mexico Central, Mexico Northeast +32

Cited as Kew's World Checklist cites it, Myrsine coriacea (Sw.) R.Br. ex Roem. & Schult.: GBIF's backbone key for this page carries the name with another author, (Sw.) R.Br.

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Habitat figures
Cold floor (1 night in 100)
10.6°C
Record low 9.1 °C in 44 years, at a typical spot in the range NASA POWER
Warmest month, mean daily high
24°C
Apr and May at the habitat CHELSA
Rain a year (median across the range)
2,056mm
12 months of 25 mm or more in the median year CHELSA
Open-sky light
28–36DLI
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, May 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.

Summary

Myrsine coriacea is a species of flowering plant in the family Primulaceae. It is a tree native to the tropical Americas, ranging from Mexico through the Caribbean, Central America, and tropical South America to northern Argentina. In Colombia it is native to the Andes, Caribbean, Pacific, and Magdalena Valley regions from 820 to 3360 meters elevation. It is used as a medicine and for food.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Myrsine coriacea", CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Seasons

The rain rule reads a sharp season: 70% of the median year's rain (1,484 mm of 2,082 mm) falls in May to October. The temperature curve is flat, 3.7 °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

2,082 mm in the median year at the habitat, 1,484 mm of it May to October. Wettest month September at 302 mm, driest month January at 67 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 1,222 mm to 3,704 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 2,056 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 2,082 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: 28 to 36 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 23, the highest 90th-percentile month 43).

Warmth and air
Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range is 10.6 °C, the absolute minimum 9.1 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 24.2 °C. Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 11.3 °C in January (across the grid cells of the range 7.7 °C to 18.3 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 23.8 °C in April and May (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: 10.6 °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 69% 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 +226 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 Myrsine coriacea through the yearWarmest months April and May, mean daily high 24 °C; coldest month January, mean nightly low 11.3 °C; 2,082 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°24.2° 99th-percentile day, NASA POWER9.1° lowest night in 44 years, NASA POWER°C · day and nightcold quarter0100200300400500mm rainDLI 28–36RH 64–69%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain medians and 10th–90th percentile across 489 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 °C20 / 17–2621 / 17–2623 / 18–2824 / 17–2924 / 17–2923 / 17–2822 / 17–2723 / 18–2822 / 18–2822 / 17–2721 / 17–2620 / 17–26
Night °C11 / 8–1812 / 8–1913 / 9–1914 / 10–2015 / 10–2115 / 9–2115 / 9–2015 / 9–2015 / 9–2014 / 9–2013 / 9–1912 / 8–19
Rain mm67 / 24–16575 / 18–17286 / 15–241129 / 33–359173 / 80–458265 / 104–424253 / 84–417253 / 86–416302 / 127–446238 / 119–420153 / 33–34688 / 19–227
DLI30 / 24–3433 / 27–3735 / 30–4236 / 26–4336 / 25–4233 / 25–3934 / 27–4035 / 29–4032 / 28–3730 / 26–3428 / 24–3328 / 23–33
RH %66 / 55–7065 / 55–7064 / 56–7165 / 58–7266 / 61–7268 / 63–7166 / 62–7267 / 61–7269 / 62–7369 / 63–7368 / 61–7367 / 58–72

Records on both sides of the equator: the 104 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 489 cells that remain: the 255 at least 10° north and the 234 within 10° of the equator, which stay in either way.

How this section is made
Each figure is the median across the 489 grid cells holding the 931 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 1680:2089 (5.975, -75.525). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum 9.1 °C, 1st-percentile night 10.6 °C, 99th-percentile day 24.2 °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 489 distinct grid cells holding 931 of the 1049 in-range records on the northern side of the equator (255 cells poleward of 10° north, 104 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 1680:2089 (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 6.00_-75.625, lapse-corrected +226 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 2074 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 Central, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southwest, Mexico Southeast, Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Leeward Is. AB Ant, Puerto Rico, Windward Is., Guyana, Venezuela, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil West-Central, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Brazil South, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Paraguay, Uruguay · 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 marker5.933, -75.417 · in the densest population, 465 records (27% of those in range)
Kew's description“tree” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 1740 georeferenced records inside the native range; the climate across the range on the 931 of them in the land cells it reads, of 1049 placed to within 10 km; the map shows only the 1187 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 2778 km away. 3 records outside the WCVP native range not used. 691 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 3169418 (Myrsine coriacea (Sw.) R.Br. ex Roem. & Schult.): Kew's file holds it as Myrsine coriacea (Sw.) R.Br. ex Roem. & Schult. (accepted); 900 records, from GBIF's search API on the day of the build.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 1740 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) julianazuluaga-carrero, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) (2); (c) Gastón Repetto, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) Guillaume Delaitre, some rights reserved (CC BY) (3).

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

Erechtites valerianifolius Erechtites valerianifolius Brazilian fireweed Photo: CC BY, Patrícia Mees Grammitis xiphopteroides Polypodiaceae Elleanthus capitatus Elleanthus capitatus Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Leonardo O. Alvarado CárdenasTillandsia multicaulis Tillandsia multicaulis Swamp fire Photo: CC BY, Rob WilliamsBarbosella prorepens Barbosella prorepens Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Anders HastingsGunnera mexicana Gunnera mexicana Gunneraceae Photo: CC BY, Juan Cruzado Cortés

Other Myrsine 27 in the reference

Myrsine africana Myrsine africana African boxwood Photo: CC BY, Jessica Utrup Myrsine andina Primulaceae Myrsine aquilonia Myrsine aquilonia Poor Knights Matipo Photo: CC BY-SA, Christopher StephensMyrsine australis Myrsine australis Mapou Photo: CC0, author not statedMyrsine capitellata Myrsine capitellata Primulaceae Photo: CC BY, Sagnik Dutta RoyMyrsine chathamica Myrsine chathamica Chatham Island Mapou Photo: CC0, author not statedMyrsine coxii Myrsine coxii Swamp Mapou Photo: CC BY, Saryu Mae 前 朝琉Myrsine cubana Myrsine cubana Primulaceae Photo: CC0, DaderotMyrsine dependens Myrsine dependens Primulaceae Photo: CC BY, Carlos TorrenteMyrsine divaricata Myrsine divaricata Weeping Mapou Photo: CC BY, Angus CampbellMyrsine gilliana Myrsine gilliana Primulaceae Photo: CC BY, Amy RiordanMyrsine guianensis Myrsine guianensis South American myrsine Photo: CC BY, Diogo Luiz all 28 ›

Names & registers

GBIFPOWOIPNIWFOWikidataWikipediaiNaturalist

The record

Family
Primulaceae
Described by
(Sw.) R.Br. ex Roem. & Schult.
Native to
Mexico Central, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Gulf +31
Wild records
1740 in range · 1187 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 7844328 is Myrsine coriacea (Sw.) R.Br.; the page links Kew's Myrsine coriacea (Sw.) R.Br. ex Roem. & Schult., 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 answeredasked 2026-10-22GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 900 records of GBIF's key 3169418, Myrsine coriacea (Sw.) R.Br. ex Roem. & Schult. (Kew's file holds it as Myrsine coriacea (Sw.) R.Br. ex Roem. & Schult. (accepted)): GBIF occurrence search API; 26 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (17 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 9 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 6.00_-75.625, lapse-corrected +226 m at 6.5 °C/km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by its label; its IPNI identifier 1028287-2 is Kew's for Myrsine coriacea (Sw.) R.Br. ex Roem. & Schult.
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 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 2026-10-22read from the page's key and its other keys: 25 from GBIF's key 3169418
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 262 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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