Arachis pintoi Krapov. & W.C.Greg.
Mani-mani, Pinto Peanut, forage peanut
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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.
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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.
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At a glance
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.
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.
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
Figures by month
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day °C | 29 / 26–30 | 29 / 27–31 | 29 / 26–30 | 28 / 25–30 | 27 / 23–30 | 26 / 22–29 | 26 / 22–29 | 28 / 24–31 | 30 / 25–33 | 30 / 26–33 | 29 / 26–31 | 28 / 26–30 |
| Night °C | 21 / 19–22 | 21 / 19–23 | 21 / 18–23 | 20 / 17–22 | 18 / 14–21 | 17 / 13–20 | 16 / 12–19 | 17 / 13–20 | 19 / 15–22 | 21 / 17–23 | 21 / 18–22 | 21 / 18–22 |
| Rain mm | 208 / 121–297 | 154 / 87–208 | 180 / 124–241 | 78 / 42–141 | 22 / 11–101 | 6 / 4–88 | 5 / 1–81 | 10 / 3–60 | 30 / 15–93 | 108 / 66–139 | 186 / 135–239 | 236 / 155–314 |
| DLI | 37 / 35–40 | 39 / 36–41 | 35 / 33–37 | 33 / 29–34 | 30 / 24–32 | 29 / 23–31 | 30 / 23–33 | 35 / 27–37 | 39 / 30–41 | 39 / 34–40 | 37 / 35–38 | 36 / 34–38 |
| RH % | 62 / 58–66 | 61 / 56–66 | 62 / 58–67 | 59 / 56–67 | 56 / 53–66 | 54 / 51–64 | 52 / 49–64 | 49 / 46–63 | 50 / 46–64 | 54 / 51–65 | 60 / 57–65 | 62 / 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
Photographs
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.
Related
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.
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History & registers
Where this page came from built 2026-09-20 · dossier v2 · node
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