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Tinomiscium petiolare Miers

Menispermaceae · China South-Central, China Southeast +11

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Habitat figuresfrom few records
Cold floor (1 night in 100)
20.3°C
Record low 18.8 °C in 44 years, at a typical spot in the range NASA POWER
Warmest month, mean daily high
29°C
Mar, Apr, May and Jun at the habitat CHELSA
Rain a year (median across the range)
2,461mm
12 months of 25 mm or more in the median year CHELSA
Open-sky light
27–36DLI
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
Rain spread: 70% of the median year's rain takes 8 months, so no short rainy season. rain rule, CHELSA
Not shifted: the shift rule does not apply to this habitat. The chart is in the habitat's months.

From few records: 11 records in 8 grid cells. The records.

Summary

Tinomiscium is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Menispermaceae. The only species is Tinomiscium petiolare. It is native to Assam, Borneo, south-central and southeast China, Java, Myanmar, New Guinea, the Nicobar Islands, Peninsular Malaysia, the Philippines, Sumatra, Thailand, and Vietnam.

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

Cultivation

Seasons

The rain rule reads no short rainy season: 70% of the median year's rain (1,811 mm of 2,487 mm) takes 8 months, October to January, April to May and July to August. Mean temperature moves 3.0 °C between the warmest and coldest month. 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

2,487 mm in the median year at the habitat, 1,811 mm of it October to January, April to May and July to August. Wettest month December at 302 mm, driest month February at 126 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 1,586 mm to 3,036 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 2,461 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 2,487 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 36 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 39).

Warmth and air
Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range is 20.3 °C, the absolute minimum 18.8 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 31.0 °C. Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 22.3 °C in January (across the grid cells of the range 10.0 °C to 24.5 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 28.9 °C in May (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: 20.3 °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: 65 to 67% 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 +369 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 11 records in 8 grid cells; a page says so under 12 records or 5 cells, and shows the figures as read.

Habitat months, northern hemisphere

Habitat climate of Tinomiscium petiolare through the yearWarmest months March, April, May and June, mean daily high 29 °C; coldest month January, mean nightly low 22.3 °C; 2,487 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°31.0° 99th-percentile day, NASA POWER18.8° lowest night in 44 years, NASA POWER°C · day and nightcold quarter0100200300400mm rainDLI 27–36RH 65–67%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain medians and 10th–90th percentile across 8 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 / 21–2827 / 23–2929 / 24–3029 / 25–3129 / 25–3029 / 25–2928 / 24–2928 / 25–2928 / 24–2928 / 23–2827 / 22–2826 / 20–28
Night °C22 / 10–2522 / 11–2523 / 13–2524 / 15–2624 / 17–2624 / 18–2624 / 18–2624 / 18–2624 / 17–2524 / 16–2523 / 13–2523 / 10–25
Rain mm204 / 16–230126 / 19–140178 / 38–214201 / 81–216206 / 172–234179 / 161–270221 / 166–315216 / 176–291193 / 174–314197 / 132–362264 / 85–349302 / 24–359
DLI29 / 25–3134 / 31–3636 / 35–3735 / 34–3932 / 31–3631 / 29–3531 / 28–3233 / 29–3332 / 28–3430 / 25–3328 / 23–2927 / 23–27
RH %66 / 59–7065 / 55–6966 / 53–6966 / 56–6966 / 62–6965 / 65–6966 / 65–7066 / 64–7067 / 65–7166 / 66–7167 / 64–7167 / 62–71
How this section is made
Each figure is the median across the 8 grid cells holding the 11 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 1517:6031 (14.125, 121.575). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum 18.8 °C, 1st-percentile night 20.3 °C, 99th-percentile day 31.0 °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 8 distinct grid cells holding 11 of the 11 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 1517:6031 (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 14.00_121.875, lapse-corrected +369 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 417 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.
NativeChina South-Central, China Southeast, Assam, Myanmar, Nicobar Is., Thailand, Vietnam, Borneo, Jawa, Malaya, Philippines, Sumatera, New Guinea · 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 marker20.35, 105.593 · in the densest population, 27 records (21% of those in range)
Range sourceKew's entry Tinomiscium petiolare Miers ex Hook.f. & Thomson · the range is that of Kew's entry of these words by another author than the one this page cites
Kew's description“liana” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 127 georeferenced records inside the native range; the climate across the range on the 11 of them placed to within 10 km; the map shows only the 104 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 222 km away. 2 records outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the climate. 116 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.
Other GBIF keysRecords also from GBIF's key 3830965 (Tinomiscium petiolare Miers ex Hook.f. & Thomson): Kew's file holds it as Tinomiscium petiolare Miers ex Hook.f. & Thomson (accepted); 117 records, from GBIF's search API on the day of the build.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 2° block of the 127 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: pbsg, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF (4); Samuel Lee, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF (2).

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

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Names & registers

Also known as Burasaia javanensis; Cocculus petiolaris; Parabaena dielsii; Tinomiscium coriaceum; Tinomiscium elasticum and 7 more. (GBIF Backbone)

Registers not checked Wikidata did not answer when this page was built, so the links it gives (POWO, IPNI, World Flora Online, Wikipedia) were not checked; any shown here are kept from an earlier build. Not asked, or not answered, is not "none": nothing here claims there is none. Why the site says it this way.
GBIFWikipedia

The record

Family
Menispermaceae
Described by
Miers
Native to
China South-Central, China Southeast, Assam +10
Wild records
127 in range · 104 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 2026-06-04the range is Kew's entry Tinomiscium petiolare Miers ex Hook.f. & Thomson; the name is cited Miers
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredasked 2026-10-22GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 117 records of GBIF's key 3830965, Tinomiscium petiolare Miers ex Hook.f. & Thomson (Kew's file holds it as Tinomiscium petiolare Miers ex Hook.f. & Thomson (accepted)): GBIF occurrence search API; 1 record within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (1 at a botanic garden or arboretum; 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 14.00_121.875, lapse-corrected +369 m at 6.5 °C/km
Wikidata wikidata failedasked 2026-10-22query.wikidata.org 502 (batched: Wikidata's query service, 100 GBIF keys)
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22Wikipedia redirects Tinomiscium petiolare to Tinomiscium, the genus Tinomiscium (Q9087762), whose one accepted species in Kew's WCVP is this species
iNaturalist taxon inat.taxon not asked
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons 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 19 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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