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Hippeastrum reticulatum (L'Hér.) Herb.

Netted-veined amaryllis

Climate known 29 photographs Bulb, tuber or caudex
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Summary

Hippeastrum reticulatum, the netted-veined amaryllis, is a flowering perennial herbaceous bulbous plant, in the family Amaryllidaceae, native to South America.

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

About the genus · Hippeastrum

Hippeastrum is a genus of 116 species, and over 600 hybrids and cultivars, of perennial, herbaceous and bulbous plants, native to tropical and subtropical regions of the Americas, from Mexico south to Argentina and on some islands in the Caribbean. The majority have large, fleshy bulbs and tall, broad, strap-like leaves that are (generally) evergreen, and large red or purple flowers. Numerous colors and cultivars have been created over the past hundred years.

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

Family
Amaryllidaceae
Described by
(L'Hér.) Herb.
Native to
Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Brazil South +1
Wild records
135 in range· 84 open

At a glance

Warmest month
28°C
Feb, mean day; nights 22 °C (CHELSA)
Rain
1476mm/yr
12 wet months · peak Jan 207 mm (CHELSA)
Light
22–38DLI
mol/m²/day, winter to summer, open sky (CHELSA shortwave)
In short condensed by rule from the cultivation cards · not written by a person
Grouped as a bulb, tuber or caudex by Amaryllidaceae, which is usually but not always one kind of plant (archetype table). Rain rule: a summer growing season, April to October in the northern hemisphere (October to April at the habitat, southern). Habitat rain 1476 mm a year, wettest January at 207 mm, driest August at 55 mm (habitat calendar, southern hemisphere). Open sky over the habitat: 22 to 38 mol/m²/day. Cold floor 14.0 °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 Amaryllis agatha Steud.; Amaryllis caroliniae Sterler; Amaryllis carolinii Sterler; Amaryllis praeclara Sweet; Amaryllis princeps Vell. and 18 more.

Cultivation

Grouped as a bulb, tuber or caudex by Amaryllidaceae, which is usually but not always 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: a summer growing season, April to October in the northern hemisphere (October to April at the habitat, southern).

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

The rain rule reads a summer growing season: 70% of the year's rain (1118 mm of 1476 mm) falls in October to April, warmer than the year (wet-season mean 24.1 °C against a yearly mean of 22.4 °C). Months are the habitat's, southern hemisphere; shifted six months for a northern-hemisphere collection: April 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 1476 mm a year, wettest January at 207 mm, driest August at 55 mm (habitat calendar, southern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

1476 mm a year at the habitat, 1118 mm of it October to April. Wettest month January at 207 mm, driest August at 55 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 1238 mm to 2127 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: 22 to 38 mol/m²/day.

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Open sky over the habitat: 22 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 18, the highest 90th-percentile month 42).

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 14.0 °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 14.0 °C, the absolute minimum 9.6 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 36.3 °C. Monthly means: coldest night 15.8 °C in July (across the envelope cells 10.3 °C to 19.9 °C), warmest day 28.0 °C in February (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: 14.0 °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

Habitat climate through the yearMean day from 23 °C in Jul to 28 °C in Feb; mean night from 16 °C in Jul to 22 °C in Feb. The cold quarter, Jun to Aug, is the three months around the coldest night. 1476 mm of rain a year, most in Jan. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 92 habitat cells. Over 44 years at the typical cell the absolute minimum was 9.6 °C and the 99th-percentile day 36.3 °C; neither is dated to a month. Beneath: daily light integral and relative humidity through the year, each on its own scale.10°15°20°25°30°35°40°36.3° 99th-percentile day (undated)9.6° lowest night in 44 yrs (undated)°C · day and nightcold quarter0100200300400mm rainDLI 22–38RH 62–65 %JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain 10th–90th percentile across 92 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 °C28 / 26–3028 / 26–3028 / 26–3026 / 24–2824 / 21–2723 / 19–2623 / 19–2524 / 21–2625 / 21–2726 / 23–2827 / 24–2827 / 25–29
Night °C22 / 18–2422 / 18–2422 / 17–2420 / 15–2318 / 12–2216 / 11–2116 / 10–2016 / 12–2017 / 13–2119 / 15–2220 / 16–2321 / 18–23
Rain mm207 / 131–307161 / 84–230152 / 132–203110 / 85–17983 / 54–15865 / 44–13064 / 42–11855 / 38–9391 / 60–161129 / 97–184172 / 131–219187 / 162–231
DLI38 / 35–4237 / 35–4234 / 32–3729 / 25–3124 / 21–2622 / 18–2423 / 19–2528 / 23–2931 / 26–3334 / 31–3636 / 34–4038 / 35–40
RH %65 / 63–6865 / 63–6865 / 62–6865 / 62–6664 / 62–6564 / 62–6563 / 60–6562 / 57–6662 / 58–6663 / 60–6664 / 60–6765 / 62–68

Each figure is the median across the 92 grid cells holding the 129 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 2231:2769 (-21.575, -41.525). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum 9.6 °C, 1st-percentile night 14.0 °C, 99th-percentile day 36.3 °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 92 distinct grid cells holding the 129 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 2231:2769 (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 -21.50_-41.250, lapse-corrected +50 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 119 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 Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Brazil South, Argentina Northeast· introduced: Marianas
Kew's description“bulbous geophyte” · “seasonally dry tropical”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Map marker-19.157, -40.041 · in the densest population, 52 records (39% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker and the climate envelope rest on all 135 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 84 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 7 km away. 3 records outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. 6 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 135 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

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Photographs: no rights reserved · CC0; (c) Pedro Alvaro Neves, some rights reserved (CC BY) (3); (c) Marcos Maes, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); (c) Henrique Bitencourt, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) (2).

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

Hippeastrum reticulatum (Amaryllidaceae): Alkaloid Profiling, Biological Activities and Molecular Docking
Luciana R. Tallini, Edison Osorio, Vanessa Santos, Warley de Souza Borges (2017) · Molecules
Effects of Hippeastrum reticulatum on memory, spatial learning and object recognition in a scopolamine-induced animal model of Alzheimer’s disease
Trang Huyen Xuan Hoang, Đức Việt Hồ, Kiem Van Phan, Quan Van Le (2020) · Pharmaceutical Biology
Evaluations of the mutagenicity of a pigment extract from bulb culture of Hippeastrum reticulatum
Viriya Nitteranon, Chokchai Kittiwongwattana, Supachai Vuttipongchaikij, Jenjira Sakulkoo (2014) · Food and Chemical Toxicology
Análise química em órgãos de reserva de algumas herbáceas e arbóreas ocorrentes na flora do Espírito Santo, Brasil
Joscineia Kelli Clippel, Hallan Nunes Chamon do Carmo, Luis Cláudio Zanette Nascimento, Geraldo Rogério Faustini Cuzzuol (2008) · Acta Botanica Brasilica
Ex vitro acclimatization of Hippeastrum reticulatum (Amaryllidaceae) using different substrates
Willian Heintze, Marília Milani, Elisandra Maria Pradella, Claudimar Sidnei Fior (2018) · Ciência Rural
Quantitative Determination of 2-Methoxypancracine in Hippeastrum reticulatum Bulbs by HPLC-DAD
Trang Huyen Xuan Hoang, Huu Tien Nguyen, Phung Thanh Huong, Aіn Raal (2022) · Pharmaceutical Chemistry Journal
Occurrence Download
GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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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 Hippeastrum 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 34 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.