Plectrocarpa carrapo (Killip & Dugand) Christenh. & Byng
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iNaturalist and GBIF media were 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.At a glance
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Cultivation
Seasons
The rain rule reads a sharp season: 70% of the median year's rain (1,196 mm of 1,657 mm) falls in March to May and September to December. The temperature curve is flat, 2.3 °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
1,657 mm in the median year at the habitat, 1,196 mm of it March to May and September to December. Wettest month April at 222 mm, driest month July at 73 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 1,166 mm to 2,331 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 1,645 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 1,657 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: 27 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 25, the highest 90th-percentile month 37).
Warmth and air
Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 21.0 °C in July (across the grid cells of the range 17.3 °C to 24.3 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 31.4 °C in February (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: none read. The nearest figure is 21.0 °C, the coldest month's mean nightly low, July, 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: 53 to 60% 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
Habitat months, northern hemisphere
Mean daily high from 28 °C in May, Jun and Jul to 31 °C in Jan, Feb and Mar; mean nightly low from 21 °C in Jul and Aug to 23 °C in Feb, Mar and Apr. The cold quarter, Jun to Aug, is the three months around the coldest month's mean nightly low, centred on the 2 months in a row that tie for it. 1,657 mm of rain in the median year (the twelve monthly medians added), the wettest month Apr. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 21 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 | 31 / 24–32 | 31 / 25–34 | 31 / 25–34 | 30 / 25–31 | 28 / 25–30 | 28 / 25–30 | 28 / 25–31 | 29 / 25–31 | 30 / 25–31 | 29 / 24–30 | 29 / 24–29 | 30 / 24–30 |
| Night °C | 22 / 18–24 | 23 / 18–24 | 23 / 18–25 | 23 / 18–25 | 22 / 18–24 | 22 / 18–24 | 21 / 17–24 | 21 / 17–24 | 22 / 18–24 | 22 / 18–24 | 22 / 18–24 | 22 / 17–23 |
| Rain mm | 79 / 17–113 | 109 / 25–129 | 134 / 46–180 | 222 / 111–262 | 215 / 141–245 | 103 / 93–133 | 73 / 63–116 | 97 / 71–142 | 158 / 139–221 | 197 / 157–274 | 157 / 96–256 | 113 / 40–165 |
| DLI | 32 / 30–34 | 32 / 31–36 | 32 / 31–36 | 30 / 27–33 | 27 / 25–31 | 27 / 25–32 | 29 / 27–35 | 32 / 31–36 | 33 / 30–37 | 30 / 28–34 | 28 / 26–31 | 30 / 27–31 |
| RH % | 54 / 52–65 | 53 / 51–64 | 55 / 53–64 | 58 / 55–64 | 60 / 58–67 | 60 / 57–67 | 58 / 56–66 | 57 / 54–66 | 57 / 54–67 | 58 / 56–68 | 59 / 57–68 | 57 / 55–66 |
The daily extremes were not used: the correction for elevation, -1447 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 16.8 °C, 1st-percentile night 20.4 °C.
How this section is made
Natural habitat
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: 9836070 (Gonopterodendron carrapo (Killip & Dugand) Godoy-Bürki, 93 records). No name was matched to GBIF; the keys are read from Kew's synonymy. How.
How this section is made
Photographs
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Names & registers
Also known as Gonopterodendron carrapo; Bulnesia carrapo. (WCVP, RBG Kew)
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
kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Plectrocarpa carrapo (Killip & Dugand) Christenh. & Byng (plant_name_id 3229818), read from Kew's names filegbif.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 askedgbif.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 askedgbif.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 askedwcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04gbif.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; 93 records of GBIF's key 9836070, Gonopterodendron carrapo (Killip & Dugand) Godoy-Bürki (Kew's file holds it as Gonopterodendron carrapo (Killip & Dugand) Godoy-Bürki (synonym under Plectrocarpa carrapo (Killip & Dugand) Christenh. & Byng)): the GBIF downloadclimate answeredasked 2026-10-22climate.extremes answeredasked 2026-10-22NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 4.50_-74.375, lapse-corrected -1447 m at 6.5 °C/km; read, and set aside: the correction for elevation, -1447 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 shownwikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 77184859-1, POWO 77184859-1wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22inat.taxon not askedinat.photos.wild not askedinat.photos.cultivated not askedgbif.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 askedcommons nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshotEvery 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 18 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.