Patinoa paraensis (Huber) Cuatrec.

Malvaceae · Colombia, Ecuador +2

Photographs not checked

iNaturalist was skipped (not asked) when this page was built. Not asked, or not answered, is not "none": nothing here claims there is none. Why the site says it this way.

Add one to my plants

Sow seed

Habitat figuresfrom few records

Cold floor (1 night in 100)

18.9°C

Record low 16.7 °C in 44 years, at a typical spot in the range NASA POWER

Warmest month, mean daily high

28°C

Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, Sep, Oct, Nov and Dec at the habitat CHELSA

Rain a year (median across the range)

4,078mm

12 months of 25 mm or more in the median year CHELSA

Open-sky light

24–33DLI

Lowest to highest month (DLI) CHELSA

The year in the habitat's months, not shifted

Rain spread: 70% of the median year's rain takes 8 months, so no short rainy season. 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: 4 records in 4 grid cells. The records.

Cultivation

Seasons

The rain rule reads no short rainy season: 70% of the median year's rain (2,900 mm of 3,926 mm) takes 8 months, February to July and October to November. Mean temperature moves 2.0 °C between the warmest and coldest month. Months are the habitat's, southern 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

3,926 mm in the median year at the habitat, 2,900 mm of it February to July and October to November. Wettest month April at 421 mm, driest month January at 213 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 3,454 mm to 4,945 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 4,078 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 3,926 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: 24 to 33 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 35).

Warmth and air

Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range is 18.9 °C, the absolute minimum 16.7 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 35.4 °C. Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 19.6 °C in July (across the grid cells of the range 18.1 °C to 20.8 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 28.4 °C in January and February (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: 18.9 °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: 65 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 -62 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 4 records in 4 grid cells; a page says so under 12 records or 5 cells, and shows the figures as read.

Habitat months, southern hemisphere

day night rain medians and 10th–90th percentile across 4 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

Figure	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Day °C	28 / 27–29	28 / 27–29	28 / 27–29	28 / 27–28	27 / 26–28	26 / 25–27	26 / 25–26	27 / 26–28	28 / 27–28	28 / 27–29	28 / 27–28	28 / 27–29
Night °C	21 / 19–22	21 / 20–22	21 / 20–22	21 / 20–22	21 / 20–22	20 / 19–21	20 / 18–21	20 / 18–21	20 / 19–22	21 / 19–22	21 / 20–22	21 / 20–22
Rain mm	213 / 179–310	295 / 247–316	360 / 308–430	421 / 350–587	408 / 357–617	386 / 336–560	322 / 286–471	255 / 203–356	281 / 243–356	337 / 301–384	371 / 327–390	277 / 241–370
DLI	32 / 32–34	31 / 31–33	30 / 30–32	29 / 27–30	26 / 25–28	24 / 23–26	25 / 24–27	30 / 29–32	33 / 31–35	33 / 32–34	31 / 30–32	31 / 31–33
RH %	65 / 63–67	65 / 63–68	67 / 65–70	69 / 67–71	69 / 67–71	70 / 67–73	69 / 66–72	67 / 63–71	67 / 63–71	68 / 64–71	69 / 66–72	67 / 65–69

How this section is made

Each figure is the median across the 4 grid cells holding the 4 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 1799:2066 (0.025, -76.675). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum 16.7 °C, 1st-percentile night 18.9 °C, 99th-percentile day 35.4 °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 4 distinct grid cells holding 4 of the 4 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 1799:2066 (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 0.00_-76.875, lapse-corrected -62 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 269 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.

NativeColombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil North · 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-0.621, -75.896 · in the densest population, 13 records (39% 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 33 georeferenced records inside the native range; the climate across the range on the 4 of them placed to within 10 km; the map shows only the 25 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 35 km away. 1 record outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the climate. 29 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 33 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

Not checked. iNaturalist was skipped (not asked) when this page was built; GBIF's observation records with coordinates hold none. Not a statement that none exist.

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

Costus longibracteolatus Costaceae Photo: CC0, author not stated Matisia obliquifolia Malvaceae

Ruellia chartacea Peruvian wild petunia Photo: CC BY, Yuri Sofronov

Browneopsis ucayalina Fabaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz

Aechmea tessmannii Bromeliaceae Photo: CC BY, Scott Zona

Stenia pallida Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Orchi

Other Patinoa 1 in the reference

Patinoa almirajo Malvaceae

Names & registers

Also known as Matisia paraensis; Quararibea paraensis. (GBIF Backbone)

GBIF POWO IPNI WFO Wikidata

The record

Family

Malvaceae

Described by

(Huber) Cuatrec.

Native to

Colombia, Ecuador, Peru +1

Wild records

33 in range · 25 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; 1 record within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (1 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 0.00_-76.875, lapse-corrected -62 m at 6.5 °C/km

Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22

Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 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 nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22

Wikimedia Commons commons nothing to reportasked 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 19 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

Patinoa paraensis (Huber) Cuatrec.

At a glance

Cultivation

Climate across the habitat

Natural habitat

Photographs

Related

Names & registers

The record