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From few records: 9 records in 9 grid cells. The records.
Summary
Pinalia multiflora is a species of orchid found in Java, the Lesser Sunda Islands and Sumatra.
Quoted from Wikipedia, "Pinalia multiflora", CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cultivation
Seasons
The rain rule reads a sharp season: 70% of the median year's rain (2,998 mm of 3,887 mm) falls in October to April. The temperature curve is flat, 1.0 °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, 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
3,887 mm in the median year at the habitat, 2,998 mm of it October to April. Wettest month January at 518 mm, driest month August at 106 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 3,138 mm to 4,285 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 3,865 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 3,887 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 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 21, the highest 90th-percentile month 39).
Warmth and air
Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 13.2 °C in July, August and September (across the grid cells of the range 8.5 °C to 15.4 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 21.7 °C in March and April (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: none read. The nearest figure is 13.2 °C, the coldest month's mean nightly low, July, August and September, in the median year (CHELSA); a month's mean of its nightly lows is warmer than the nights a floor is read from. The daily extremes were read at a weather cell whose ground is too far above or below the typical spot to correct for, and are not used.
Relative humidity at the habitat: 63 to 73% 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. CHELSA monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range. No cold floor is read without a daily extremes series; the coldest month's mean nightly low named in its sentence is not one. 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 9 records in 9 grid cells; a page says so under 12 records or 5 cells, and shows the figures as read.
Habitat months, southern hemisphere
Mean daily high from 20 °C in Jan, Nov and Dec to 22 °C in Mar, Apr, May and Jun; mean nightly low from 13 °C in Jul, Aug and Sep to 14 °C in Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Oct, Nov and Dec. The cold quarter, Jul to Sep, is the three months around the coldest month's mean nightly low, centred on the 3 months in a row that tie for it. 3,887 mm of rain in the median year (the twelve monthly medians added), the wettest month Jan. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 9 habitat cells. Beneath: daily light integral and relative humidity through the year, each on its own scale.
Figures by month
| Figure | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day °C | 20 / 17–23 | 21 / 17–23 | 22 / 17–23 | 22 / 17–24 | 22 / 17–24 | 22 / 17–24 | 21 / 16–24 | 21 / 17–24 | 21 / 17–25 | 21 / 18–25 | 20 / 17–24 | 20 / 17–23 |
| Night °C | 14 / 11–17 | 14 / 11–17 | 14 / 11–17 | 14 / 11–17 | 14 / 10–17 | 14 / 9–16 | 13 / 9–15 | 13 / 8–15 | 13 / 9–16 | 14 / 10–17 | 14 / 11–17 | 14 / 11–17 |
| Rain mm | 518 / 386–662 | 498 / 374–559 | 433 / 337–492 | 380 / 283–418 | 290 / 175–330 | 192 / 135–204 | 137 / 79–198 | 106 / 53–201 | 164 / 86–245 | 340 / 187–372 | 397 / 312–459 | 432 / 361–553 |
| DLI | 24 / 21–29 | 25 / 22–30 | 26 / 25–33 | 29 / 27–32 | 30 / 28–33 | 30 / 27–33 | 32 / 29–34 | 35 / 31–38 | 35 / 33–39 | 34 / 30–37 | 29 / 24–31 | 25 / 23–28 |
| RH % | 73 / 69–74 | 72 / 68–74 | 70 / 67–72 | 69 / 67–72 | 67 / 64–71 | 65 / 61–69 | 65 / 59–67 | 63 / 59–65 | 64 / 61–67 | 66 / 63–69 | 70 / 67–72 | 72 / 68–73 |
The daily extremes were not used: the correction for elevation, +1026 m, is beyond the 1,000 m either way that a lapse rate is applied over, so the weather cell's ground is other terrain than the typical spot's. So no cold floor is read for this species, and the coldest month's mean nightly low is not taken as one. What that cell gave, so corrected, over 44 years: absolute minimum 9.0 °C, 1st-percentile night 10.8 °C.
How this section is made
Natural habitat
How this section is made
Photographs
Photographs: (c) Forest Botial-Jarvis, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) Eric Knight, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); (c) Fathurrahman Sidiq, some rights reserved (CC BY); Dalton Holland Baptista, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Averater, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Related
Similar habitat climate The 6 nearest by mean daily high, mean nightly low and rain, month by month. How.
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Pinalia densa Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Mitch
Pinalia floribunda Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Teguh
Pinalia ovata Orchidaceae Photo: CC0, author not stated
Pinalia rhynchostyloides Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, C T Johansson
Pinalia spicata Lily of the Valley Orchid Photo: CC BY, Motohiro Sunouchi
Pinalia xanthocheila Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Gerard Chartier Names & registers
Also known as Dendrolirium micranthum; Dendrolirium multiflorum; Eria micrantha; Eria multiflora; Octomeria racemosa and 2 more. (GBIF Backbone)
The record
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
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