Plinia inflata McVaugh
Cited as Kew's World Checklist cites it, Plinia inflata McVaugh: GBIF's backbone key for this page carries the name with another author, Mc Vaugh.
At a glance
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From few records: 7 records in 7 grid cells. The records.
Summary
Plinia inflata, commonly known as mulchi in Ecuador or cambucá equatoriano (Ecuadorian cambucá) in Brazil, is a species of plant in the family Myrtaceae. The tree is endemic to the Ecuadorian and Brazilian Amazon, grows to between 3 and 4 metres (9.8 and 13.1 ft) tall, and produces edible yellow-orange fruits. This plant has historically been mistaken for Eugenia subterminalis.
Quoted from Wikipedia, "Plinia inflata", CC BY-SA 4.0.
About the genus · Plinia
Plinia is a genus of flowering plants in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae described by Linnaeus in 1753. It is native to Central and South America as well as the West Indies.Species
Quoted from Wikipedia, "Plinia", CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cultivation
Seasons
The rain rule reads no short rainy season: 70% of the median year's rain (2,360 mm of 3,309 mm) takes 8 months, December to January, March to July and October. Mean temperature moves 2.1 °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
3,309 mm in the median year at the habitat, 2,360 mm of it December to January, March to July and October. Wettest month May at 334 mm, driest month August at 200 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 2,273 mm to 3,975 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 3,208 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 3,309 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: 25 to 34 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
Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range is 18.1 °C, the absolute minimum 15.5 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 33.0 °C. Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 20.8 °C in July (across the grid cells of the range 19.2 °C to 23.0 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 29.2 °C in January (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: 18.1 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range (NASA POWER).
Relative humidity at the habitat: 66 to 72% 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 -53 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 7 records in 7 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 27 °C in Jun and Jul to 29 °C in Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, Sep, Oct, Nov and Dec; mean nightly low from 21 °C in Jun, Jul and Aug to 23 °C in Jan, Feb, Mar and Dec. The cold quarter, Jun to Aug, is the three months around the coldest month's mean nightly low, centred on the 3 months in a row that tie for it. 3,309 mm of rain in the median year (the twelve monthly medians added), the wettest month May. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 7 habitat cells. Over 44 years at a typical spot in the range (NASA POWER) the absolute minimum was 15.5 °C and the 99th-percentile day 33.0 °C; neither is dated to a month. 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 | 29 / 28–29 | 29 / 28–29 | 29 / 28–29 | 29 / 27–29 | 28 / 27–29 | 27 / 26–29 | 27 / 26–30 | 28 / 27–31 | 29 / 27–31 | 29 / 28–31 | 29 / 27–30 | 29 / 28–30 |
| Night °C | 23 / 21–24 | 23 / 21–24 | 23 / 21–24 | 22 / 21–24 | 22 / 20–23 | 21 / 20–23 | 21 / 19–23 | 21 / 19–24 | 22 / 20–24 | 22 / 20–24 | 22 / 21–24 | 23 / 21–24 |
| Rain mm | 257 / 190–325 | 254 / 234–298 | 304 / 284–324 | 333 / 250–428 | 334 / 148–416 | 323 / 70–441 | 265 / 36–356 | 200 / 55–286 | 239 / 99–312 | 268 / 185–333 | 256 / 223–313 | 276 / 228–319 |
| DLI | 32 / 29–32 | 30 / 28–32 | 29 / 28–31 | 27 / 26–29 | 26 / 25–27 | 25 / 23–27 | 27 / 24–31 | 32 / 29–33 | 34 / 31–35 | 34 / 32–35 | 32 / 30–33 | 31 / 30–32 |
| RH % | 67 / 64–73 | 69 / 66–73 | 70 / 68–73 | 72 / 68–74 | 71 / 69–73 | 70 / 69–73 | 67 / 66–73 | 66 / 64–72 | 69 / 66–72 | 70 / 67–71 | 71 / 68–72 | 69 / 66–73 |
How this section is made
Natural habitat
How this section is made
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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
gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22GBIF's key 10198940 is Plinia inflata Mc Vaugh; the page links Kew's Plinia inflata McVaugh, and the name is cited as Kew cites itgbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04gbif.occurrences answeredasked 2026-10-22GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 26 records of GBIF's key 5415643, Plinia inflata McVaugh (Kew's file holds it as Plinia inflata McVaugh (accepted)): GBIF occurrence search APIclimate answeredasked 2026-10-22climate.extremes answeredasked 2026-10-22NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell -1.50_-76.875, lapse-corrected -53 m at 6.5 °C/kmwikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by its label; its IPNI identifier 203863-2 is Kew's for Plinia inflata McVaughwikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22inat.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 2026-10-22inat.photos.cultivated not askedgbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22none of the photographs on this page is credited to GBIF: those shown are other sources', and GBIF's were the same photographs or were set aside by the photograph rulescommons 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 8 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.