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Sinningia allagophylla (Mart.) Wiehler

Gesneriaceae

Climate known 92 photographs Bulb, tuber or caudex
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About the genus · Sinningia

Sinningia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Gesneriaceae. It is named after Wilhelm Sinning (1792–1874), a gardener of the Botanische Gärten der Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. There are about 65 species of tuberous herbaceous perennials, all occurring in Central and South America, with the greatest concentration of species occurring in southern Brazil.

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

Family
Gesneriaceae
Described by
(Mart.) Wiehler
Native to
Brazil West-Central, Brazil Southeast, Brazil South +3
Wild records
598 in range· 481 open

At a glance

Warmest month
26°C
Feb, mean day; nights 18 °C (CHELSA)
Rain
1637mm/yr
12 wet months · peak Jan 232 mm (CHELSA)
Light
20–36DLI
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 the genus Sinningia, which is reliably one kind of plant (archetype table). Rain rule: a summer growing season, March to September in the northern hemisphere (September to March at the habitat, southern). Habitat rain 1637 mm a year, wettest January at 232 mm, driest August at 57 mm (habitat calendar, southern hemisphere). Open sky over the habitat: 20 to 36 mol/m²/day. Cold floor 3.8 °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 Alagophylla dasyanthes Raf.; Corytholoma allagophyllum (Mart.) Fritsch; Corytholoma tribracteatum (Otto & A.Dietr.) Fritsch; Gesnera allagophylla Mart.; Gesnera tribracteata Otto & A.Dietr. and 24 more.

Cultivation

Grouped as a bulb, tuber or caudex by the genus Sinningia, 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: a summer growing season, March to September in the northern hemisphere (September to March 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 (1214 mm of 1637 mm) falls in September to March, warmer than the year (wet-season mean 20.6 °C against a yearly mean of 18.9 °C). Months are the habitat's, southern hemisphere; shifted six months for a northern-hemisphere collection: March to September.

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 1637 mm a year, wettest January at 232 mm, driest August at 57 mm (habitat calendar, southern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

1637 mm a year at the habitat, 1214 mm of it September to March. Wettest month January at 232 mm, driest August at 57 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 1381 mm to 2172 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: 20 to 36 mol/m²/day.

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Open sky over the habitat: 20 to 36 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 44).

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 3.8 °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 3.8 °C, the absolute minimum -0.7 °C, 1 frost night in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 34.6 °C. Monthly means: coldest night 10.2 °C in July (across the envelope cells 7.2 °C to 13.9 °C), warmest day 26.0 °C in February (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: 3.8 °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: 60 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 19 °C in Jul to 26 °C in Feb; mean night from 10 °C in Jul to 18 °C in Feb. The cold quarter, Jun to Aug, is the three months around the coldest night. 1637 mm of rain a year, most in Jan. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 431 habitat cells. Over 44 years at the typical cell the absolute minimum was -0.7 °C and the 99th-percentile day 34.6 °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°frost34.6° 99th-percentile day (undated)-0.7° lowest night in 44 yrs (undated)°C · day and nightcold quarter0100200300400mm rainDLI 20–36RH 60–65 %JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain 10th–90th percentile across 431 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 °C26 / 24–3126 / 24–3025 / 23–2924 / 21–2721 / 18–2520 / 16–2419 / 16–2421 / 18–2722 / 19–2824 / 20–2825 / 22–2825 / 23–30
Night °C18 / 16–2218 / 16–2117 / 15–2016 / 13–1813 / 9–1611 / 8–1410 / 7–1411 / 8–1513 / 9–1715 / 12–1816 / 13–1917 / 15–21
Rain mm232 / 150–378185 / 147–266161 / 117–256108 / 73–190107 / 31–15083 / 9–14768 / 7–15357 / 17–126112 / 48–179154 / 120–201174 / 125–255196 / 125–369
DLI36 / 33–4236 / 33–3832 / 30–3427 / 24–3222 / 19–2920 / 16–2822 / 17–2927 / 22–3430 / 25–3834 / 29–3836 / 33–4036 / 31–44
RH %65 / 60–6965 / 61–6965 / 61–6964 / 61–6863 / 58–6763 / 55–6662 / 53–6560 / 51–6462 / 53–6662 / 57–6863 / 59–6865 / 59–70

Each figure is the median across the 431 grid cells holding the 569 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 2365:2613 (-28.275, -49.325). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum -0.7 °C, 1st-percentile night 3.8 °C, 99th-percentile day 34.6 °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 431 distinct grid cells holding the 569 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 2365:2613 (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 -28.50_-49.375, lapse-corrected -161 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 306 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 Southeast, Brazil South, Argentina Northeast, Paraguay, Uruguay
Kew's description“tuberous geophyte” · “seasonally dry tropical”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Map marker-25.417, -49.267 · in the densest population, 238 records (40% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker and the climate envelope rest on all 598 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 481 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 8 km away. 2 records outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. 29 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 598 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Gastón Repetto, some rights reserved (CC BY) (5); no rights reserved · CC0; (c) Rodrigo Paiva Lázaro, some rights reserved (CC BY) (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 Sinningia allagophylla, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Testing the regeneration niche hypothesis with Gesneriaceae (tribe Sinningiae) in Brazil: Implications for the conservation of rare species
Bernardo Ranieri, Flávia Fonseca Pezzini, Queila Souza Garcia, Alain Chautems (2011) · Austral Ecology
Estudo químico de Sinningia allagophylla guiado por testes de atividade antiproliferativa
Dilamara Riva, Andersson Barison, Maria Élida Alves Stefanello, Clarisse Bolfe Poliquesi (2012) · Química Nova
Naphthochromenes and Related Constituents from the Tubers of Sinningia allagophylla
Dilamara Riva Scharf, Maria Helena Verdan, Marcos A. Ribeiro, Edésio Luiz Simionatto (2016) · Journal of Natural Products
Estudo de nutrição mineral in vitro relacionado à adaptação de Sinningia allagophylla (Martius) Wiehler (Gesneriaceae) às condições de cerrado
MÁRCIA A. NOVAES GOMES, Simone Liliane Kirszenzaft Shepherd (2000) · Revista Brasileira de Botânica
Antinociceptive and Anti‐inflammatory Activities of the Ethanolic Extract, Fractions and 8‐Methoxylapachenol from S inningia allagophylla Tubers
Felipe Lukacievicz Barbosa, Lídia Sayuri Mori, Dilamara Riva, Maria Élida Alves Stefanello (2013) · Basic & Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology
Sinningia allagophylla(Gesneriaceae): in vitro cultivation of a native plant of the Brazilian cerrado
Vilma Palazetti de Almeida, Simone Liliane Kirszenzaft Shepherd (1999) · Revista Brasileira de Botânica
Flora polínica da reserva do parque estadual das fontes do Ipiranga (São Paulo, SP, Brasil). Famílias: 141-Boraginaceae e 149-Gesneriaceae
Eduardo Custódio Gasparino, Cintia Neves de Souza, Maria Amélia Vitorino da Cruz‐Barros (2014) · Hoehnea
Dimeric naphthochromenes and other constituents from Sinningia allagophylla (Gesneriaceae)
Maria Helena Verdan, Vanessa Winiewski, Dilamara Riva Scharf, Marcos José Salvador (2021) · Phytochemistry Letters
Gesneriaceae do Parque Estadual do Ibitipoca, Minas Gerais, Brasil
Juliana Gonçalves Blaser, Marinês Eiterer, Fátima Regina Gonçalves Salimena, Alain Chautems (2011) · Boletim de Botânica
Flora Polínica da Reserva do Parque Estadual das Fontes do Ipiranga (São Paulo, SP, Brasil)
Eduardo Custódio Gasparino, Cintia Neves de Souza, Maria Amélia Vitorino da Cruz‐Barros (2014)
MORFOGÊNESE E CRESCIMENTO IN VITRO DE SINNINGIA ALLAGOPHYLLA (GESNERIACEAE): EFEITOS DE FITORREGULATORES E DE FOTOPERIODO
Marcia Aparecidea Novaes Gomes, Simone Liliane Kirszenzaft Shepherd (2002) · Acta Horticulturae

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 Sinningia 79 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 86 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.