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Arachis pintoi Krapov. & W.C.Greg.

Mani-mani, Pinto Peanut, forage peanut

Climate known 54 photographs
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Summary

Arachis pintoi, the Pinto peanut, is a forage plant native to Cerrado vegetation in Brazil. It is native to the valleys of the upper São Francisco and the Jequitinhonha rivers of Minas Gerais. It has been named after the Brazilian botanist Geraldo Pinto, who first collected the plant at the locality of Boca do Córrego, município de Belmonte in 1954 and suggested its potential as a forage. The species has been first described by A. Krapovickas and W. Gregory in 1994.

Text from Wikipedia, “Arachis pintoi”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written. Kept separate from everything derived here.

About the genus · Arachis

Arachis is a genus of about 70 species of annual and perennial flowering plants in the family (Fabaceae), native to South America, and was recently assigned to the informal monophyletic Pterocarpus clade of the Dalbergieae. At least one species, the peanut, is a major food crop species of global importance; some of the other species are cultivated for food to a small extent in South America. Other species such as A. pintoi are cultivated worldwide as forage and soil conditioner plants, with the leaves providing high-protein feed for grazing livestock and a nitrogen source in agroforestry and permaculture systems.

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

Family
Fabaceae
Described by
Krapov. & W.C.Greg.
Native to
Brazil West-Central, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast
Wild records
285 in range· 256 open

At a glance

Warmest month
30°C
Oct, mean day; nights 21 °C (CHELSA)
Rain
1223mm/yr
8 wet months · peak Dec 236 mm (CHELSA)
Light
29–39DLI
mol/m²/day, winter to summer, open sky (CHELSA shortwave)
In short condensed by rule from the cultivation cards · not written by a person
Rain rule: a sharp rainy season, November to March at the habitat (not shifted); the temperature curve is flat (3.6 °C of range), so no growing season is inferred. Habitat rain 1223 mm a year, wettest December at 236 mm, driest July at 5 mm (habitat calendar, southern hemisphere). Open sky over the habitat: 29 to 39 mol/m²/day. Cold floor 11.6 °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.

Cultivation

Its year Rain rule: a sharp rainy season, November to March at the habitat (not shifted); the temperature curve is flat (3.6 °C of range), so no growing season is inferred.

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

The rain rule reads a sharp season: 70% of the year's rain (964 mm of 1223 mm) falls in November to March. The temperature curve is flat, 3.6 °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; with a flat temperature curve there is no season to reverse, so they are not shifted for a collection elsewhere.

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 1223 mm a year, wettest December at 236 mm, driest July at 5 mm (habitat calendar, southern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

1223 mm a year at the habitat, 964 mm of it November to March. Wettest month December at 236 mm, driest July at 5 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 878 mm to 1667 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: 29 to 39 mol/m²/day.

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Open sky over the habitat: 29 to 39 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 23, the highest 90th-percentile month 41).

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 11.6 °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 11.6 °C, the absolute minimum 6.9 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 38.0 °C. Monthly means: coldest night 16.3 °C in July (across the envelope cells 12.2 °C to 18.8 °C), warmest day 30.2 °C in October (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: 11.6 °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: 49 to 62% 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 26 °C in Jul to 30 °C in Oct; mean night from 16 °C in Jul to 21 °C in Jan. The cold quarter, Jun to Aug, is the three months around the coldest night. 1223 mm of rain a year, most in Dec. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 230 habitat cells. Over 44 years at the typical cell the absolute minimum was 6.9 °C and the 99th-percentile day 38.0 °C; neither is dated to a month. Beneath: daily light integral and relative humidity through the year, each on its own scale.10°20°30°40°38.0° 99th-percentile day (undated)6.9° lowest night in 44 yrs (undated)°C · day and nightcold quarter0100200300400mm rainDLI 29–39RH 49–62 %JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain 10th–90th percentile across 230 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 / 27–3129 / 26–3028 / 25–3027 / 23–3026 / 22–2926 / 22–2928 / 24–3130 / 25–3330 / 26–3329 / 26–3128 / 26–30
Night °C21 / 19–2221 / 19–2321 / 18–2320 / 17–2218 / 14–2117 / 13–2016 / 12–1917 / 13–2019 / 15–2221 / 17–2321 / 18–2221 / 18–22
Rain mm208 / 121–297154 / 87–208180 / 124–24178 / 42–14122 / 11–1016 / 4–885 / 1–8110 / 3–6030 / 15–93108 / 66–139186 / 135–239236 / 155–314
DLI37 / 35–4039 / 36–4135 / 33–3733 / 29–3430 / 24–3229 / 23–3130 / 23–3335 / 27–3739 / 30–4139 / 34–4037 / 35–3836 / 34–38
RH %62 / 58–6661 / 56–6662 / 58–6759 / 56–6756 / 53–6654 / 51–6452 / 49–6449 / 46–6350 / 46–6454 / 51–6560 / 57–6562 / 59–66

Each figure is the median across the 230 grid cells holding the 284 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 2080:2656 (-14.025, -47.175). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum 6.9 °C, 1st-percentile night 11.6 °C, 99th-percentile day 38.0 °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 230 distinct grid cells holding the 284 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 2080:2656 (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 -14.00_-46.875, lapse-corrected +239 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 847 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.
NativeBrazil West-Central, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast· introduced: Sri Lanka, Queensland, Hawaii, Honduras, Venezuela, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil South, Argentina Northeast
Kew's description“annual” · “seasonally dry tropical”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Map marker-15.993, -47.554 · in the densest population, 102 records (36% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker and the climate envelope rest on all 285 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 256 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 18 km away. 1169 records outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. 1 in-range record is placed to worse than 10 km and stays 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 285 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Andrés Ramírez-Barrera, some rights reserved (CC BY); no rights reserved · CC0 (2); (c) Djibo Zanzot, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) (2); (c) Pranav Chandra Bose, some rights reserved (CC BY) (3).

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 Arachis pintoi, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Fusarium Wilt of Banana: Current Knowledge on Epidemiology and Research Needs Toward Sustainable Disease Management
Miguel Dita, Marcia Barquero, Daniel W. Heck, Eduardo S. G. Mizubuti (2018) · Frontiers in Plant Science
Investigation of thermal benefits of rooftop garden in the tropical environment
Nyuk Hien Wong, Yu Chen, Chui Leng Ong, Angelia Sia (2002) · Building and Environment
Decomposition of leaf litter from tropical forage grasses and legumes
Richard J. Thomas, N.M. Asakawa (1993) · Soil Biology and Biochemistry
Advances in Arachis genomics for peanut improvement
Manish K. Pandey, E. S. Monyo, Peggy Ozias‐Akins, Xuanquiang Liang (2011) · Biotechnology Advances
The Epidemiology of Fusarium Wilt of Banana
K. G. Pegg, L. M. Coates, W. O’Neill, D. W. Turner (2019) · Frontiers in Plant Science
Phosphorus Transformations in an Oxisol under contrasting land-use systems: The role of the soil microbial biomass
Astrid Oberson, D. K. Friesen, Idupulapati M. Rao, S. Bühler (2001) · Plant and Soil
Tannin containing legumes as a model for nutraceuticals against digestive parasites in livestock
Hervé Hoste, J.F.J. Torres-Acosta, C.A. Sandoval-Castro, I. Mueller‐Harvey (2015) · Veterinary Parasitology

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 Arachis 1 in the reference

History & registers

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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 59 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.