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Syzygium densiflorum Wall. ex Wight & Arn.

Myrtaceae · India

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Syzygium densiflorum, photograph (c) Srinivasan Kasinathan, some rights reserved (CC BY)Syzygium densiflorum, photograph (c) Srinivasan Kasinathan, some rights reserved (CC BY)Syzygium densiflorum, photograph (c) Srinivasan Kasinathan, some rights reserved (CC BY)Syzygium densiflorum, photograph (c) Jyotsna Nag, some rights reserved (CC BY)Syzygium densiflorum, photograph (c) madhavan a.p, some rights reserved (CC BY)Syzygium densiflorum, photograph (c) T R Shankar Raman, some rights reserved (CC BY) 41 photographs ›
Habitat figures
Cold floor (1 night in 100)
9.6°C
Record low 7.5 °C in 44 years, at a typical spot in the range NASA POWER
Warmest month, mean daily high
29°C
Mar at the habitat CHELSA
Rain a year (median across the range)
3,284mm
12 months of 25 mm or more in the median year CHELSA
Open-sky light
22–41DLI
Lowest to highest month (DLI) CHELSA
The year in the habitat's months, not shifted
  1. Jan
  2. Feb
  3. Mar
  4. Apr
  5. May
  6. Jun
  7. Jul
  8. Aug
  9. Sep
  10. Oct
  11. Nov
  12. Dec
A sharp rainy season, June to October (the habitat's months, not shifted), in a year of even temperature. rain rule, CHELSA
Not shifted: the shift rule does not apply to this habitat. The chart is in the habitat's months.

Summary

Syzygium densiflorum is a species of evergreen tree in the family Myrtaceae. It is endemic to the Western Ghats mountains, India. The species is categorised as Vulnerable in the IUCN Red List.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Syzygium densiflorum", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Syzygium

Syzygium is a genus of flowering plants that belongs to the myrtle family, Myrtaceae. The genus comprises about 1200 species, and has a native range that extends from Africa and Madagascar through southern Asia east through the Pacific. Its highest levels of diversity occur from Malaysia to northeastern Australia, where many species are very poorly known and many more have not been described taxonomically. More on Wikipedia ›

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

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Seasons

The rain rule reads a sharp season: 70% of the median year's rain (2,283 mm of 3,248 mm) falls in June to October. The temperature curve is flat, 3.2 °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 temperature curve moves under 4 °C between the warmest and coldest month, where the shift rule does not apply, so they are not shifted for a collection elsewhere.

Rain

3,248 mm in the median year at the habitat, 2,283 mm of it June to October. Wettest month July at 626 mm, driest month January at 28 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 1,884 mm to 4,381 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 3,284 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 3,248 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: 22 to 41 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 20, the highest 90th-percentile month 43).

Warmth and air
Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range is 9.6 °C, the absolute minimum 7.5 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 34.2 °C. Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 14.2 °C in January (across the grid cells of the range 10.7 °C to 16.6 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 28.9 °C in March (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: 9.6 °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: 55 to 79% 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 +653 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 Syzygium densiflorum through the yearWarmest month March, mean daily high 29 °C; coldest month January, mean nightly low 14.2 °C; 3,248 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.5°10°15°20°25°30°35°40°34.2° 99th-percentile day, NASA POWER7.5° lowest night in 44 years, NASA POWER°C · day and nightcold quarter020040060080010001200mm rainDLI 22–41RH 55–79%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain medians and 10th–90th percentile across 21 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 °C26 / 21–2828 / 24–3029 / 25–3128 / 24–3026 / 23–2823 / 20–2522 / 20–2423 / 20–2424 / 21–2524 / 21–2624 / 20–2624 / 20–27
Night °C14 / 11–1715 / 11–1717 / 13–1919 / 15–2019 / 16–2118 / 15–2018 / 15–1917 / 14–1917 / 14–1917 / 14–1916 / 13–1815 / 12–17
Rain mm28 / 5–3329 / 7–41106 / 37–142209 / 103–295278 / 154–388518 / 245–776626 / 283–1020431 / 198–719297 / 190–402411 / 280–514246 / 105–29569 / 24–80
DLI37 / 36–3840 / 39–4141 / 41–4336 / 35–3931 / 29–3623 / 22–2622 / 20–2524 / 22–2727 / 26–3027 / 26–3029 / 28–3132 / 31–35
RH %56 / 53–5855 / 54–5657 / 54–6066 / 61–6972 / 63–7678 / 70–8279 / 71–8278 / 70–8175 / 67–7771 / 68–7367 / 60–6861 / 55–63
How this section is made
Each figure is the median across the 21 grid cells holding the 171 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 1593:5139 (10.325, 76.975). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum 7.5 °C, 1st-percentile night 9.6 °C, 99th-percentile day 34.2 °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 21 distinct grid cells holding 171 of the 171 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 1593:5139 (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 10.50_76.875, lapse-corrected +653 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 1193 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.
NativeIndia · 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 marker10.35, 76.99 · in the densest population, 182 records (98% of those in range)
Kew's description“tree” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 185 georeferenced records inside the native range; the climate across the range on the 171 of them placed to within 10 km; the map shows only the 184 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 1 km away. 4 records outside the WCVP native range not used. 14 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.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 185 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: (c) Srinivasan Kasinathan, some rights reserved (CC BY) (3); (c) Jyotsna Nag, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) madhavan a.p, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) T R Shankar Raman, some rights reserved (CC BY).

Similar habitat climate The 6 nearest by mean daily high, mean nightly low and rain, month by month. How.

Phyllanthus anamalayanus Phyllanthus anamalayanus Phyllanthaceae Photo: CC BY, Srinivasan KasinathanBegonia dipetala Begonia dipetala Begoniaceae Photo: CC BY, Siddarth MachadoCeropegia ensifolia Ceropegia ensifolia Apocynaceae Photo: CC BY, Paulmathi Vinod Discospermum sphaerocarpum Rubiaceae Maesa indica Maesa indica Primulaceae Photo: CC BY, Patricia RosePteris argyraea Pteris argyraea Pteridaceae Photo: CC BY, Pranav Chandra Bose

Other Syzygium 85 in the reference

Syzygium acre Syzygium acre Myrtaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, didierSyzygium acuminatissimum Syzygium acuminatissimum Myrtaceae Photo: CC BY, Cheng-Te HsuSyzygium alatoramulum Syzygium alatoramulum Tinkling stainash Photo: CC BY-SA, Steve FitzgeraldSyzygium alliiligneum Syzygium alliiligneum Mission Beach satinash Photo: CC BY-SA, Evert MatermanSyzygium angophoroides Syzygium angophoroides Swamp Satinash Photo: CC BY, Roland MuenchSyzygium anisatum Syzygium anisatum Anise myrtle Photo: CC BY-SA, Lachlan CopelandSyzygium antisepticum Syzygium antisepticum Myrtaceae Photo: CC BY, luluchouetteSyzygium apodophyllum Syzygium apodophyllum Rex Satinash Photo: CC BY-SA, Evert MatermanSyzygium aqueum Syzygium aqueum Watery rose apple Photo: CC BY, T R Shankar Raman Syzygium armstrongii Small White Bush Apple Syzygium aromaticum Syzygium aromaticum Clove Photo: CC BY, Eric KnightSyzygium australe Syzygium australe Australian brush-cherry Photo: CC BY, Dave Richardson all 86 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Eugenia arnottiana; Syzygium arnottianum. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Myrtaceae
Described by
Wall. ex Wight & Arn.
Native to
India
Wild records
185 in range · 184 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
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate answeredasked 2026-10-22
Daily extremes (NASA POWER) climate.extremes answeredasked 2026-10-22NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 10.50_76.875, lapse-corrected +653 m at 6.5 °C/km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.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 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.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 rules
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 11 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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