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Adromischus triflorus (L.fil.) A.Berger

Crassulaceae

Climate known 90 photographs Cactus or succulent
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About the genus · Adromischus

Adromischus is a genus of flowering plants. They are easily-propagated, leaf succulents from the family Crassulaceae, which are endemic to southern Africa. The name comes from the ancient Greek adros (=thick) and mischos (=stem).

Text from Wikipedia, “Adromischus”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family
Crassulaceae
Described by
(L.fil.) A.Berger
Native to
Cape Provinces
Wild records
274 in range· 84 open

At a glance

Warmest month
29°C
Jan, mean day; nights 15 °C (CHELSA)
Rain
378mm/yr
10 wet months · peak Apr 43 mm (CHELSA)
Light
18–50DLI
mol/m²/day, winter to summer, open sky (CHELSA shortwave)
In short condensed by rule from the cultivation cards · not written by a person
Grouped as a cactus or succulent by the genus Adromischus, which is reliably one kind of plant (archetype table). Rain rule: no season, 70% of the rain takes 8 months (February, April to July and September to November in the northern hemisphere). Habitat rain 378 mm a year, wettest April at 43 mm, driest September at 22 mm (habitat calendar, southern hemisphere). Open sky over the habitat: 18 to 50 mol/m²/day. Cold floor 1.0 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).
Each sentence is one card's own one-line form, written by the same rule as the card (Its year, Rain, Light, Temperature); the note cannot say what a card does not. Months are given for the northern hemisphere (set your site in Settings to change this), and the habitat's own alongside. The cards · the figures.

Also known as Adromischus procurvus (N.E.Br.) C.A.Sm.; Adromischus robustus Lem.; Adromischus subcompressus Poelln.; Adromischus subpetiolatus Poelln.; Cotyledon bolusii var. karroensis Schönland and 2 more.

Cultivation

Grouped as a cactus or succulent by the genus Adromischus, which is reliably one kind of plant (archetype table). The table holds no figure for this group, which spans too much for one minimum; the cold floor is the habitat's alone, and no prose comes from the table.

Its year Rain rule: no season, 70% of the rain takes 8 months (February, April to July and September to November in the northern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, and what two fixed rules read from them.

The rain rule reads no season: 70% of the year's rain (279 mm of 378 mm) takes 8 months, October to January, March to May and August. Mean temperature moves 10.9 °C between the warmest and coldest month. Months are the habitat's, southern hemisphere; shifted six months for a northern-hemisphere collection: February, April to July and September to November.

Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the envelope cells: 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 gives a season to reverse. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain Habitat rain 378 mm a year, wettest April at 43 mm, driest September at 22 mm (habitat calendar, southern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

378 mm a year at the habitat, 279 mm of it October to January, March to May and August. Wettest month April at 43 mm, driest September at 22 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 268 mm to 540 mm (10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year) (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; habitat calendar, southern hemisphere).

CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the envelope cells. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light Open sky over the habitat: 18 to 50 mol/m²/day.

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Open sky over the habitat: 18 to 50 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 16, the highest 90th-percentile month 53).

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.

Warmth and air Cold floor 1.0 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell is 1.0 °C, the absolute minimum -1.8 °C, about 1 frost night a year (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 39.4 °C. Monthly means: coldest night 4.9 °C in July (across the envelope cells 2.7 °C to 6.1 °C), warmest day 29.0 °C in January (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: 1.0 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell (NASA POWER).

NASA POWER daily minima and maxima 1981–2024 at the typical cell, lapse-corrected to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA. The cold floor is the figure named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 54 to 57% across the year (monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the envelope cells.

The figures the cards read from are in Climate below, and where they came from in Natural habitat.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat climate through the yearMean day from 17 °C in Jul to 29 °C in Jan; mean night from 5 °C in Jul to 16 °C in Feb. The cold quarter, Jun to Aug, is the three months around the coldest night. 378 mm of rain a year, most in Apr. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 153 habitat cells. Over 44 years at the typical cell the absolute minimum was -1.8 °C and the 99th-percentile day 39.4 °C; neither is dated to a month. Beneath: daily light integral and relative humidity through the year, each on its own scale.-10°10°20°30°40°50°frost39.4° 99th-percentile day (undated)-1.8° lowest night in 44 yrs (undated)°C · day and nightcold quarter0255075mm rainDLI 18–50RH 54–57 %JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain 10th–90th percentile across 153 habitat cells cold quarter: the three months around the coldest night extremes over 44 years at the typical cell, marked at the edge: undated DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C29 / 26–3029 / 26–3027 / 25–2824 / 22–2521 / 18–2217 / 15–1917 / 14–1818 / 16–2021 / 18–2223 / 21–2425 / 23–2728 / 25–29
Night °C15 / 13–1616 / 13–1714 / 12–1512 / 10–139 / 7–106 / 4–75 / 3–66 / 4–78 / 6–910 / 8–1112 / 10–1314 / 12–15
Rain mm29 / 19–4325 / 16–3938 / 26–5243 / 30–6128 / 21–4024 / 17–3628 / 18–4232 / 22–4822 / 15–3239 / 23–5536 / 22–5334 / 23–46
DLI50 / 48–5344 / 42–4736 / 34–3827 / 26–2921 / 20–2318 / 16–1919 / 18–2124 / 23–2632 / 31–3439 / 38–4246 / 45–5050 / 48–53
RH %55 / 52–5856 / 53–5957 / 54–6056 / 54–5854 / 52–5654 / 52–5554 / 52–5554 / 52–5755 / 52–5756 / 53–5856 / 53–5855 / 52–58

Each figure is the median across the 153 grid cells holding the 250 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. Extremes and elevation were read at the typical cell 2469:4055 (-33.475, 22.775). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum -1.8 °C, 1st-percentile night 1.0 °C, 99th-percentile day 39.4 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Envelope: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 153 distinct grid cells holding the 250 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 2469:4055 (its coldest month's mean night nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell -33.50_22.500, lapse-corrected -140 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 604 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 every in-range record's cell, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeCape Provinces
Kew's description“succulent subshrub” · “subtropical”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Map marker-33.621, 21.622 · in the densest population, 260 records (95% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker and the climate envelope rest on all 274 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 84 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 4 km away. 24 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km and stay on the map but off the climate.
The map markerthe map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 274 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Tony Rebelo, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA); (c) Brian du Preez, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA); no rights reserved · CC0 (2); (c) Nicola van Berkel, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) (4).

Photographs: iNaturalist and Wikimedia Commons did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Adromischus triflorus, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Cape plants: corrections and additions to the flora. 1
Peter Goldblatt, John C. Manning, D. A. Snijman (2005) · Bothalia
Management of critically endangered renosterveld fragments in the Overberg, South Africa
Odette E. Curtis (2013) · Open University of Cape Town (University of Cape Town)
Phylogenomics and plastomics offer new evolutionary perspectives on Kalanchoideae (Crassulaceae)
Shiyun Han, Sijia Zhang, Ran Yi, De Bi (2024) · Annals of Botany
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GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
Adromischus triflorus (L. fil.) A. Berger
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (2026) · DiSSCo
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GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility

Similar habitat climate the 6 species whose habitat climate is nearest this one's: mean day and night, month by month, and rain on a log scale, in calendar order, so a habitat with the same seasons six months out is far, not near. Nothing else counts: not range, not family.

Other Adromischus 28 in the reference

History & registers

Where this page came from built 2026-09-20 · dossier v2 · node
gbif.species answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-20 (offline re-derivation; the backbone was not asked)
gbif.synonyms answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-20 (offline re-derivation; the backbone was not asked)
gbif.vernacular answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-20 (offline re-derivation; the backbone was not asked)
wcvp.distribution answered
gbif.occurrences answeredGBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.3h4zam
climate answered
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Every upstream is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, or refused. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 3 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.