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Talipariti tiliaceum (L.) Fryxell

Hau, Fau, Sea hibiscus, Sea hibiscus, Waru

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Summary

Hibiscus tiliaceus, commonly known as the sea hibiscus or coast cottonwood, is an evergreen species of flowering tree in the mallow family, Malvaceae, with a pantropical distribution along coastlines. It has also been introduced to Florida and New Zealand. It has been debated whether this species is native or introduced to Hawaii.

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

About the genus · Talipariti

Talipariti was a genus of plants in the mallow family Malvaceae. It is now considered to be a synonym of Hibiscus, in which case its species form the section Hibiscus sect. Azanzae. There were about 22 species, exclusively tropical except for one species whose range extends into temperate areas of Japan and Korea.

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

Family
Malvaceae
Described by
(L.) Fryxell
Native to
Gambia, The, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau +119
Wild records
725 in range· 68 open

At a glance

Warmest month
27°C
Aug, mean day; nights 24 °C (CHELSA)
Rain
1668mm/yr
12 wet months · peak May 165 mm (CHELSA)
Light
29–35DLI
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 September and December at the habitat (not shifted)). Habitat rain 1668 mm a year, wettest May at 165 mm, driest October at 101 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere). Open sky over the habitat: 29 to 35 mol/m²/day. Cold floor 17.8 °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 Abelmoschus guineensis (DC.) Walp.; Hibiscus albovariegata W.Bull; Hibiscus boninensis Nakai; Hibiscus circinnatus Willd.; Hibiscus elatus DC. and 45 more.

Cultivation

Its year Rain rule: no season, 70% of the rain takes 8 months (March to September and December at the habitat (not shifted)).

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

The rain rule reads no season: 70% of the year's rain (1185 mm of 1668 mm) takes 8 months, March to September and December. Mean temperature moves 2.6 °C between the warmest and coldest month. Months are the habitat's, northern 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 1668 mm a year, wettest May at 165 mm, driest October at 101 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

1668 mm a year at the habitat, 1185 mm of it March to September and December. Wettest month May at 165 mm, driest October at 101 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 1004 mm to 3263 mm (10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year) (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; habitat calendar, northern 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 35 mol/m²/day.

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Open sky over the habitat: 29 to 35 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 20, 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 17.8 °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 17.8 °C, the absolute minimum 15.9 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 25.6 °C. Monthly means: coldest night 21.3 °C in March (across the envelope cells 16.6 °C to 25.6 °C), warmest day 27.4 °C in August (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: 17.8 °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: 63 to 64% 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 25 °C in Apr to 27 °C in Aug; mean night from 21 °C in Mar to 24 °C in Aug. The cold quarter, Feb to Apr, is the three months around the coldest night. 1668 mm of rain a year, most in May. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 469 habitat cells. Over 44 years at the typical cell the absolute minimum was 15.9 °C and the 99th-percentile day 25.6 °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°25.6° 99th-percentile day (undated)15.9° lowest night in 44 yrs (undated)°C · day and nightcold quarter0100200300400mm rainDLI 29–35RH 63–64 %JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain 10th–90th percentile across 469 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 / 18–2926 / 19–2926 / 21–2925 / 23–2926 / 22–2927 / 19–2927 / 19–3027 / 20–3027 / 22–2926 / 23–2925 / 23–2826 / 20–28
Night °C22 / 14–2522 / 14–2521 / 17–2621 / 18–2623 / 17–2624 / 14–2624 / 13–2724 / 14–2624 / 16–2623 / 17–2522 / 18–2522 / 15–25
Rain mm125 / 22–339131 / 37–294132 / 49–288144 / 58–240165 / 48–312151 / 39–391153 / 37–363154 / 40–391152 / 38–386101 / 44–313126 / 36–304134 / 26–308
DLI32 / 20–4235 / 21–3934 / 26–4033 / 27–4132 / 22–4331 / 20–4333 / 21–4333 / 26–4134 / 30–4033 / 27–4130 / 22–4229 / 20–43
RH %63 / 59–6763 / 60–6764 / 60–6864 / 59–6864 / 59–6964 / 57–6964 / 56–6964 / 55–6964 / 57–6863 / 58–6863 / 59–6763 / 59–67

Each figure is the median across the 469 grid cells holding the 715 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 1382:469 (20.875, -156.525). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum 15.9 °C, 1st-percentile night 17.8 °C, 99th-percentile day 25.6 °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 469 distinct grid cells holding the 715 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 1382:469 (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 21.00_-156.250, lapse-corrected +248 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 402 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.
NativeGambia, The, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Cabinda, Cameroon, Congo, Gabon, Gulf of Guinea Is., Zaïre, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Cape Provinces, KwaZulu-Natal, Aldabra, Comoros, Rodrigues, Seychelles, Hainan, China Southeast, Japan, Kazan-retto, Nansei-shoto, Ogasawara-shoto, Taiwan, Assam, Bangladesh, India, Laccadive Is., Maldives, Sri Lanka, Andaman Is., Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Nicobar Is., Thailand, Vietnam, Borneo, Cocos (Keeling) I., Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Christmas I., Bismarck Archipelago, New Guinea, Solomon Is., Norfolk Is., New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia, Kermadec Is., Fiji, Gilbert Is., Nauru, Niue, New Caledonia, Samoa, Santa Cruz Is., Tokelau-Manihiki, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Wallis-Futuna Is., Cook Is., Marquesas, Pitcairn Is., Society Is., Tuamotu, Tubuai Is., Caroline Is., Marianas, Marshall Is., Hawaii, Mexico Central, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Gulf, Mexican Pacific Is., Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southwest, Mexico Southeast, Belize, Costa Rica, C. American Pacific Is., El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Bahamas, Cayman Is., Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Leeward Is. AB Ant, Puerto Rico, Southwest Caribbean, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is., French Guiana, Guyana, Surinam, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Brazil North, Brazil South· introduced: Chagos Archipelago, Easter Is., Line Is., Florida, Bermuda, Galápagos
Kew's description“shrub or tree” · “seasonally dry tropical”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Map marker25.012, 121.031 · in the densest population, 192 records (26% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker and the climate envelope rest on all 725 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 68 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 89 km away. 43 records outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. 10 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 4° block of the 725 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

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Photographs: 黃其君, BY via GBIF · CC BY (3); Eugene Eric Kim, CC0 via GBIF (2); frogglet, CC0 via GBIF (3).

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

Identification and Characterization of Citrus Chlorotic Spot Virus, a New Dichorhavirus Associated with Citrus Leprosis-Like Symptoms
Camila Chabi‐Jesus, Pedro Luis Ramos‐González, Aline D. Tassi, Orlene Guerra‐Peraza (2018) · Plant Disease
Karakteristik Mangrove Di Muara Sungai Timur Kawasan Laguna Segara Anakan, Kabupaten Cilacap Jawa Tengah
Raditya Rizki Ananta, Nirwani Soenardjo, Rini Pramesti (2020) · Journal of Marine Research
Maconellicoccus hirsutus (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) in Brazil: Recent Spread, Natural Enemies, and New Hosts
D. dos S. Martins, Maurício José Fornazier, Ana Lúcia Benfatti Gonzalez Peronti, Mark Paul Culik (2019) · Florida Entomologist
First Report of Citrus Chlorotic Spot Virus Infecting the Succulent Plant Agave desmettiana
Camila Chabi‐Jesus, Pedro Luis Ramos‐González, Aline D. Tassi, Beatriz Meireles Barguil (2019) · Plant Disease
Pola Sebaran Tumbuhan Invasif dikawasan Taman Nasional Bukit Sulap Kota Lubuklinggau
Nopa Nopiyanti, Reny Dwi Riastuti (2019) · BIOEDUSAINS Jurnal Pendidikan Biologi dan Sains
Talipariti tiliaceum (sea hibiscus)
Jeanine Vélez-Gavilán (2022) · CABI Compendium
The complete chloroplast genome sequence of the mangrove associate species Talipariti tiliaceum
Zhimin Qiu, Yunxiao Zhu, Zhaokui Du, Pingyong Bao (2021) · Mitochondrial DNA Part B

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.

History & registers

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