Calliandra selloi, Hawkes Bay, Hastings. "Splash Planet" grounds

no rights reserved · observed growing wild · 2016-02-07

Calliandra selloi (Spreng.) J.F.Macbr.

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Climate known 61 photographs

Every figure on this page is derived from public data by a stated rule and says its source; nothing here is written by a person or a model, except the Wikipedia passage, which is quoted and marked as such. How it is made.

About the genus · Calliandra

Calliandra is a genus of flowering plants in the pea family, Fabaceae, in the mimosoid clade of the subfamily Caesalpinioideae. It contains about 140 species that are native to tropical and subtropical regions of the Americas.

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

Family

Fabaceae

Described by

(Spreng.) J.F.Macbr.

Native to

Brazil West-Central, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast +4

Wild records

427 in range· 250 open

At a glance

Warmest month

27°C

Feb, mean day; nights 19 °C (CHELSA)

Rain

1688mm/yr

12 wet months · peak Jan 205 mm (CHELSA)

Light

18–38DLI

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: no season, 70% of the rain takes 8 months (March to October in the northern hemisphere). Habitat rain 1688 mm a year, wettest January at 205 mm, driest August at 83 mm (habitat calendar, southern hemisphere). Open sky over the habitat: 18 to 38 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 Acacia selloi Spreng.; Annesleya brevipes Lindm., 1898; Anneslia brevipes (Benth.) Lindm.; Calliandra brevipes Benth.; Calliandra yucunensis N.F.Mattos and 2 more.

Cultivation

Its year Rain rule: no season, 70% of the rain takes 8 months (March to October 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 (1275 mm of 1688 mm) takes 8 months, September to April. Mean temperature moves 8.3 °C between the warmest and coldest month. Months are the habitat's, southern hemisphere; shifted six months for a northern-hemisphere collection: March to October.

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 1688 mm a year, wettest January at 205 mm, driest August at 83 mm (habitat calendar, southern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

1688 mm a year at the habitat, 1275 mm of it September to April. Wettest month January at 205 mm, driest August at 83 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 1399 mm to 2126 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 38 mol/m²/day.

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Open sky over the habitat: 18 to 38 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 15, the highest 90th-percentile month 43).

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 -4.1 °C, about 2 frost nights a year (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 36.9 °C. Monthly means: coldest night 11.0 °C in July (across the envelope cells 8.6 °C to 14.8 °C), warmest day 27.2 °C in February (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: 62 to 65% 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

day night rain 10th–90th percentile across 315 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

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Day °C	27 / 25–30	27 / 25–30	26 / 24–29	24 / 22–27	21 / 19–25	20 / 18–24	19 / 17–24	21 / 19–25	22 / 19–26	24 / 22–28	25 / 23–28	26 / 24–29
Night °C	19 / 17–22	19 / 17–22	19 / 17–22	17 / 14–20	13 / 11–17	12 / 9–15	11 / 9–15	12 / 10–16	14 / 11–18	15 / 13–19	17 / 15–20	18 / 16–21
Rain mm	205 / 134–326	176 / 134–247	145 / 104–240	121 / 83–181	118 / 49–166	102 / 24–162	110 / 15–161	83 / 24–128	143 / 62–179	156 / 116–220	154 / 121–230	175 / 115–311
DLI	37 / 34–41	36 / 33–38	32 / 29–34	26 / 23–30	21 / 19–26	18 / 15–25	19 / 17–26	25 / 21–31	28 / 24–34	33 / 29–37	38 / 33–40	38 / 34–43
RH %	64 / 61–69	65 / 62–69	64 / 62–69	64 / 61–68	64 / 60–67	64 / 59–66	63 / 57–66	62 / 55–66	63 / 57–66	63 / 59–68	63 / 60–68	63 / 60–68

Each figure is the median across the 315 grid cells holding the 397 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 2342:2503 (-27.125, -54.825). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum -4.1 °C, 1st-percentile night 1.0 °C, 99th-percentile day 36.9 °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 315 distinct grid cells holding the 397 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 2342:2503 (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 -27.00_-55.000, lapse-corrected +153 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 407 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, Brazil South, Argentina Northeast, Paraguay, Uruguay· introduced: Zimbabwe, Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Jawa, Malaya, Honduras

Kew's description“shrub” · “seasonally dry tropical”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here

Map marker-26.382, -49.277 · in the densest population, 198 records (46% of those in range)

Evidence usedThe map marker and the climate envelope rest on all 427 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 250 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 475 km away. 43 records outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. 30 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 inside the densest 2° block of the 427 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

Photographs: no rights reserved · CC0 (2); (c) LPB, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); (c) Daniel Duarte, some rights reserved (CC BY) (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 Calliandra selloi, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Calliandra selloi Macbride trypsin inhibitor: Isolation, characterization, stability, spectroscopic analyses

Lucila Yoshizaki, María F. Troncoso, José Luiz de Souza Lopes, Ulf Hellman (2007) · Phytochemistry

SUBSTRATOS E CONCENTRAÇÕES DE ÁCIDO NAFTALENO ACÉTICO NO ENRAIZAMENTO DE ESTACAS SEMILENHOSAS DE Calliandra selloi E Calliandra tweediei

Daniela Macedo de Lima, Giovana Bonfim de Alcantara, Michele Fernanda Bortolini, Fernanda Pereira Fanti (2006) · Scientia Agraria

Ocorrência de Fabaceae – Mimosoidea em APPs da faixa de domínio da rodovia BR-116, trecho Curitiba, PR a Capão Alto, SC

Fabio Luiz Malczewski, Mário Fritsch, Maristela Povaluk (2015) · Saúde e meio ambiente revista interdisciplinar

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