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Syzygium fibrosum (F.M.Bailey) T.G.Hartley & L.M.Perry

Fibrous satinash

Myrtaceae · New Guinea, Northern Territory +1

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Habitat figures
Cold floor (1 night in 100)
20.4°C
Record low 17.0 °C in 44 years, at a typical spot in the range NASA POWER
Warmest month, mean daily high
30°C
Nov and Dec at the habitat CHELSA
Rain a year (median across the range)
1,912mm
8 months of 25 mm or more in the median year CHELSA
Open-sky light
28–43DLI
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, December to March (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 fibrosum is a species of trees native to rainforest, monsoon forest, and gallery forest of New Guinea and northern Australia. Common names include small red apple, (Bamaga) fibrous satinash and apricot satinash.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Syzygium fibrosum", 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 (1,366 mm of 1,824 mm) falls in December to March. 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, southern 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

1,824 mm in the median year at the habitat, 1,366 mm of it December to March. Wettest month February at 403 mm, driest month August at 10 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 1,424 mm to 2,459 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 1,912 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 1,824 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: 28 to 43 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 45).

Warmth and air
Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range is 20.4 °C, the absolute minimum 17.0 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 34.7 °C. Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 21.4 °C in July (across the grid cells of the range 16.6 °C to 23.4 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 29.8 °C in November and December (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: 20.4 °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: 62 to 68% 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 +6 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, southern hemisphere

Habitat climate of Syzygium fibrosum through the yearWarmest months November and December, mean daily high 30 °C; coldest month July, mean nightly low 21.4 °C; 1,824 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, southern hemisphere.15°20°25°30°35°40°34.7° 99th-percentile day, NASA POWER17.0° lowest night in 44 years, NASA POWER°C · day and nightcold quarter0100200300400500mm rainDLI 28–43RH 62–68%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain medians and 10th–90th percentile across 132 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 °C29 / 28–3129 / 27–3029 / 26–3028 / 25–3128 / 24–3026 / 23–2926 / 22–2926 / 23–3028 / 24–3129 / 26–3230 / 27–3230 / 28–32
Night °C25 / 22–2625 / 22–2625 / 22–2624 / 20–2623 / 19–2522 / 17–2421 / 17–2322 / 17–2323 / 18–2523 / 20–2624 / 21–2725 / 22–27
Rain mm393 / 301–447403 / 288–462327 / 266–417170 / 111–30865 / 28–18323 / 4–9816 / 4–8510 / 3–7016 / 5–6749 / 17–91109 / 67–201243 / 176–356
DLI34 / 32–3933 / 31–3634 / 31–3533 / 30–3630 / 26–3528 / 25–3429 / 26–3534 / 30–3840 / 35–4243 / 39–4542 / 40–4438 / 35–41
RH %67 / 66–6968 / 66–7067 / 65–7066 / 61–6964 / 57–6863 / 54–6763 / 54–6662 / 55–6562 / 58–6562 / 59–6563 / 61–6765 / 63–68
How this section is made
Each figure is the median across the 132 grid cells holding the 254 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 2033:6212 (-11.675, 130.625). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum 17.0 °C, 1st-percentile night 20.4 °C, 99th-percentile day 34.7 °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 132 distinct grid cells holding 254 of the 254 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 2033:6212 (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 -11.50_130.625, lapse-corrected +6 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 24 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.
NativeNew Guinea, Northern Territory, Queensland · 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 marker-16.875, 145.669 · in the densest population, 175 records (58% 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 303 georeferenced records inside the native range; the climate across the range on the 254 of them placed to within 10 km; the map shows only the 280 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 48 km away. 49 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 inside the densest 4° block of the 303 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) Steve Fitzgerald, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) (5); (c) Jane C Frost, some rights reserved (CC BY).

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

Phaleria octandra Phaleria octandra Dwarf Phaleria Photo: CC BY, Sue CarnahanNeofabricia myrtifolia Neofabricia myrtifolia Myrtaceae Photo: CC BY, Matt BSalacia chinensis Salacia chinensis Celastraceae Photo: CC0, author not statedOsbeckia chinensis Osbeckia chinensis Melastomataceae Photo: CC BY, Nina Kerr Oryza officinalis Poaceae Dischidia ovata Dischidia ovata Watermelon dischidia Photo: CC0, author not stated

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 fibrosa. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Myrtaceae
Described by
(F.M.Bailey) T.G.Hartley & L.M.Perry
Native to
New Guinea, Northern Territory, Queensland
Wild records
303 in range · 280 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; 26 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (22 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 1 at a herbarium, 3 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate answeredasked 2026-10-22
Daily extremes (NASA POWER) climate.extremes answeredasked 2026-10-22NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell -11.50_130.625, lapse-corrected +6 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 2026-10-22
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 17 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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