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Phyllanthus puber (L.) Müll.Arg.

Phyllanthaceae · China South-Central, Hainan +5

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Habitat figures
Cold floor (1 night in 100)
-3.8°C
Record low -10.9 °C in 44 years, at a typical spot in the range NASA POWER
Warmest month, mean daily high
30°C
Jul at the habitat CHELSA
Rain a year (median across the range)
1,782mm
12 months of 25 mm or more in the median year CHELSA
Open-sky light
17–36DLI
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
Wet summers: the rain comes March to September, read as a summer growing season. rain rule, CHELSA
Northern hemisphere unless you set your site. The chart is in the habitat's months.

Summary

Phyllanthus puber is a species of shrub or small tree in the family Phyllanthaceae. It is native to China, where it is widely distributed in both subtropical and temperate regions (Anhui, Fujian, Gansu, Guangdong, Guizhou, Hainan, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, and Zhejiang provinces and Tibet and Guangxi autonomous regions). It has also been reported from Taiwan and Japan, and is morphologically very similar to the species Glochidion chodoense, endemic to southern South Korea. In Mandarin it is known as 算盘子 (suanpanzi), which also refers to the genera Glochidion and Phyllanthus as a whole. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Phyllanthus puber", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Phyllanthus

Phyllanthus is the largest genus in the plant family Phyllanthaceae. Estimates of the number of species in this genus vary widely, from 750 to 1200. Phyllanthus has a remarkable diversity of growth forms including annual and perennial herbs, shrubs, climbers, floating aquatics, and pachycaulous succulents. More on Wikipedia ›

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

Cultivation

Seasons

The rain rule reads a summer growing season: 70% of the median year's rain (1,326 mm of 1,696 mm) falls in March to September, warmer than the year (wet-season mean 22.0 °C against a yearly mean of 17.9 °C). Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: September to March.

Rain

1,696 mm in the median year at the habitat, 1,326 mm of it March to September. Wettest month June at 263 mm, driest month December at 49 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 1,277 mm to 2,315 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 1,782 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 1,696 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: 17 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 15, the highest 90th-percentile month 38).

Warmth and air
Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range is -3.8 °C, the absolute minimum -10.9 °C, 930 frost nights in 44 years, 21.1 a year (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 31.2 °C. Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 4.7 °C in January (across the grid cells of the range -0.6 °C to 13.1 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 29.9 °C in July (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: -3.8 °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: 59 to 67% 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 +115 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 Phyllanthus puber through the yearWarmest month July, mean daily high 30 °C; coldest month January, mean nightly low 4.7 °C; 1,696 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.-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°frost31.2° 99th-percentile day, NASA POWER-10.9° lowest night in 44 years, NASA POWER°C · day and nightcold quarter0100200300400500mm rainDLI 17–36RH 59–67%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain medians and 10th–90th percentile across 46 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 °C9 / 7–1811 / 8–1914 / 10–2221 / 14–2526 / 19–2828 / 23–3030 / 27–3329 / 27–3227 / 25–2923 / 21–2717 / 15–2312 / 10–20
Night °C5 / -1–136 / 1–148 / 5–1613 / 10–2018 / 15–2322 / 20–2425 / 23–2625 / 22–2622 / 19–2417 / 13–2112 / 7–186 / 1–15
Rain mm70 / 22–9990 / 37–136149 / 54–199154 / 96–252216 / 113–314263 / 174–404206 / 119–397195 / 148–428143 / 86–29785 / 45–10976 / 29–9749 / 22–63
DLI17 / 15–2120 / 15–2324 / 17–3028 / 22–3431 / 26–3531 / 28–3436 / 32–3832 / 30–3729 / 25–3124 / 22–2918 / 17–2417 / 16–21
RH %60 / 58–6462 / 59–6764 / 60–6964 / 60–6964 / 61–7065 / 63–7365 / 61–7367 / 63–7164 / 61–6760 / 58–6460 / 57–6359 / 57–62
How this section is made
Each figure is the median across the 46 grid cells holding the 56 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 1306:5851 (24.675, 112.575). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum -10.9 °C, 1st-percentile night -3.8 °C, 99th-percentile day 31.2 °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 46 distinct grid cells holding 56 of the 56 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 1306:5851 (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 24.50_112.500, lapse-corrected +115 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 577 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: 3080488 (Glochidion puberum (L.) Hutch., 1999 records). No name was matched to GBIF; the keys are read from Kew's synonymy. How.

NativeChina South-Central, Hainan, China North-Central, China Southeast, Tibet, Japan, Taiwan · introduced: Alabama · 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 marker25.6, 115.78 · in the densest population, 452 records (63% of those in range)
Kew's description“shrub or tree” · “subtropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 723 georeferenced records inside the native range; the climate across the range on the 56 of them placed to within 10 km; the map shows only the 330 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 96 km away. 8 records outside the WCVP native range not used. 667 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 3080488 (Glochidion puberum (L.) Hutch.): Kew's file holds it as Glochidion puberum (L.) Hutch. (synonym under Phyllanthus puber (L.) Müll.Arg.); 1,999 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 723 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: Vinayaraj, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (5); 阿橋 HQ, 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.

Diospyros kaki Diospyros kaki Japanese persimmon Photo: CC BY, WATANABE Hitoshi 渡辺仁Hovenia acerba Hovenia acerba Rhamnaceae Photo: CC BY, Jiao Sun (孙娇)Lithocarpus glaber Lithocarpus glaber Japanese-oak Photo: CC BY, 黃美滿Lilium brownii Lilium brownii Brown's lily Photo: CC BY, Emilie PDalbergia millettii Dalbergia millettii Fabaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedSalvia chinensis Salvia chinensis Chinese Sage Photo: CC BY, Jacy Chen

Other Phyllanthus 53 in the reference

Phyllanthus abnormis Phyllanthus abnormis Drummond's leaf-flower Photo: CC0, author not statedPhyllanthus acidus Phyllanthus acidus Otaheite gooseberry Photo: CC BY, Annika LindqvistPhyllanthus albiflorus Phyllanthus albiflorus Phyllanthaceae Photo: CC BY, Ethel AardvarkPhyllanthus amarus Phyllanthus amarus Carry me seed Photo: CC BY, Raja Sekhar ChimiralaPhyllanthus anamalayanus Phyllanthus anamalayanus Phyllanthaceae Photo: CC BY, Srinivasan KasinathanPhyllanthus angustifolius Phyllanthus angustifolius Foliage flower Photo: CC0, author not statedPhyllanthus arbuscula Phyllanthus arbuscula Phyllanthaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, User:BotBlnPhyllanthus assamicus Phyllanthus assamicus Phyllanthaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, VinayarajPhyllanthus buxifolius Phyllanthus buxifolius Phyllanthaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedPhyllanthus calycinus Phyllanthus calycinus Phyllanthaceae Photo: CC BY, Millie BradyPhyllanthus caroliniensis Phyllanthus caroliniensis Carolina leaf-flower Photo: CC BY, Christopher EvansPhyllanthus cernuus Phyllanthus cernuus Phyllanthaceae Photo: CC BY, Thomas Mesaglio all 54 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Agyneia impubes; Agyneia pinnata; Agyneia pubera; Agyneia sinica; Bradleia sinica and 6 more. (WCVP, RBG Kew)

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The record

Family
Phyllanthaceae
Described by
(L.) Müll.Arg.
Native to
China South-Central, Hainan, China North-Central +4
Wild records
723 in range · 330 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 Phyllanthus puber (L.) Müll.Arg. (plant_name_id 154724), 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; 1999 records of GBIF's key 3080488, Glochidion puberum (L.) Hutch. (Kew's file holds it as Glochidion puberum (L.) Hutch. (synonym under Phyllanthus puber (L.) Müll.Arg.)): the GBIF download; 12 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (12 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 24.50_112.500, lapse-corrected +115 m at 6.5 °C/km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 354529-1, POWO 354529-1
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 29 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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