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From few records: 6 records in 3 grid cells. The records.
Summary
Streptocarpus teitensis, synonym Saintpaulia teitensis, is a species of Streptocarpus in the section Saintpaulia. It is endemic to 1 square kilometer on Mbololo Hill in the Taita Hills of southern Kenya. The total population is estimated at less than 2,500 individual plants in the wild.
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About the genus · Streptocarpus
Streptocarpus is an Afrotropical genus of flowering plants in the family Gesneriaceae. The genus is native to Afromontane biotopes from central, eastern and southern Africa, including Madagascar and the Comoro Islands. The flowers are five-petalled, salverform tubes, almost orchid-like in appearance, and hover or arch over the plant, while the pointed, elongate fruit is of a helical form similar to that of the "tusk" of a narwhal. More on Wikipedia ›
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Cultivation
Grouped as a tropical foliage plant, listed under the genus Streptocarpus in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “lithophyte or epiphyte”, “wet tropical”.
Seasons
The rain rule reads a summer growing season: 70% of the median year's rain (591 mm of 766 mm) falls in March to May and November to December, warmer than the year (wet-season mean 23.0 °C against a yearly mean of 22.2 °C). 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
766 mm in the median year at the habitat, 591 mm of it March to May and November to December. Wettest month November at 157 mm, driest month July at 11 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 720 mm to 809 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 766 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 766 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: 30 to 42 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 29, the highest 90th-percentile month 42).
Warmth and air
Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range is 13.3 °C, the absolute minimum 11.3 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 34.0 °C. Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 15.1 °C in July (across the grid cells of the range 14.1 °C to 16.9 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 29.5 °C in February (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: 13.3 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range (NASA POWER).
Relative humidity at the habitat: 60 to 66% 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 +393 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.
Group. Listed under the genus Streptocarpus in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “lithophyte or epiphyte”, “wet tropical”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.
Climate across the habitat
From few records: this habitat climate is read from 6 records in 3 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 25 °C in Jul and Aug to 30 °C in Feb; mean nightly low from 15 °C in Jul and Aug to 19 °C in Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr and Dec. 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. 766 mm of rain in the median year (the twelve monthly medians added), the wettest month Nov. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 3 habitat cells. Over 44 years at a typical spot in the range (NASA POWER) the absolute minimum was 11.3 °C and the 99th-percentile day 34.0 °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 | 28 / 27–30 | 30 / 28–31 | 29 / 28–31 | 28 / 27–29 | 26 / 25–28 | 26 / 24–27 | 25 / 24–27 | 25 / 24–27 | 27 / 26–28 | 28 / 27–29 | 27 / 26–29 | 27 / 26–29 |
| Night °C | 19 / 18–20 | 19 / 18–21 | 19 / 18–21 | 19 / 18–21 | 18 / 17–20 | 16 / 15–18 | 15 / 14–17 | 15 / 14–17 | 16 / 15–18 | 17 / 16–19 | 18 / 17–20 | 19 / 18–20 |
| Rain mm | 49 / 47–51 | 23 / 21–24 | 93 / 87–99 | 133 / 122–144 | 66 / 60–72 | 14 / 13–15 | 11 / 10–12 | 12 | 21 / 21–22 | 45 / 43–48 | 157 / 147–165 | 142 / 137–145 |
| DLI | 39 / 38–39 | 42 / 42–42 | 40 / 40–41 | 36 / 35–36 | 32 / 31–32 | 30 / 29–30 | 30 / 29–30 | 31 / 30–31 | 35 / 35–35 | 38 / 37–38 | 37 / 36–37 | 37 / 36–37 |
| RH % | 63 / 61–64 | 60 / 58–61 | 62 / 60–64 | 66 / 63–68 | 65 / 62–67 | 62 / 60–63 | 61 / 59–62 | 61 / 59–62 | 61 / 59–62 | 62 / 60–63 | 65 / 63–67 | 66 / 64–68 |
How this section is made
Natural habitat
How this section is made
Photographs
Photographs: Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Also known as Saintpaulia teitensis. (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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