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1. Climate

About climate mapping

To make searching practical, SilvaGrid groups the bioclimatic zones from the World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP) into five primary macro-climates:

Tropical: Equatorial and tropical zones defined by consistent year-round warmth. This encompasses the wet tropics, seasonally dry tropics, and cooler high-altitude montane tropics.
Subtropical: Warm transition zones between tropical and temperate regions, typically characterized by mild, largely frost-free winters. (Note: WCVP groups dry-summer Mediterranean climates within this broader biome).
Temperate: Mid-latitude climates defined by distinct seasonal shifts, including a true winter season where regular frosts and plant dormancy are expected.
Arid: Moisture-deficient climates—including true deserts and dry shrublands—where evaporation exceeds precipitation, requiring severe drought adaptations.
Cold: High-latitude subarctic or high-altitude subalpine climates defined by severe winters, prolonged freezing, and highly restricted growing seasons.

These categories describe a species' primary native environment and serve as a broad baseline for cultivation. While many plants can be successfully grown across multiple macroclimates—for example, some species mapped to the Tropical macroclimate can also be grown in temperate climates—others may have much narrower climatic requirements within their mapped macroclimate. Local factors such as frost hardiness, summer heat, rainfall and soil conditions should always be considered before planting.

2. Plant Types

About plant types

SilvaGrid Plant Types are practical horticultural and botanical groupings derived from WCVP life-form descriptions, taxonomy, or a combination of the two. Some correspond closely to established botanical groups, while others bring together plants with similar growth forms for practical discovery.

Trees: Woody plants with persistent above-ground stems, generally forming an elevated crown or canopy. Large herbaceous tree-like plants are excluded.
Shrubs: Woody or partly woody plants with a shrub or subshrub growth form, typically branching low rather than forming a single main trunk.
Climbers & Vines: Plants with a climbing growth habit, including herbaceous climbers and woody lianas that use other vegetation or structures for support.
Conifers: Gymnosperms from the major conifer families, including pines, cypresses, podocarps and their relatives, ranging from low shrubs to large trees.
Palms & Cycads: True palms from the Arecaceae family together with cycads. The two are not close botanical relatives, but are grouped here as a practical horticultural and landscape category.
Ferns: Vascular, spore-producing plants within the fern group, ranging from small ground-layer and epiphytic forms to large tree ferns.
Grasses, Sedges & Rushes: A practical group combining true grasses, sedges, rushes and restios. Bamboos are shown separately because of their distinctive growth form.
Bamboos: Members of the grass family, shown separately from other grasses because of their distinctive growth forms and horticultural use.
Herbaceous Perennials: Non-woody, multi-year plants, including evergreen tropical perennials and large herbaceous forms. Bulbs and other geophytes are shown separately.
Annuals & Biennials: Short-lived plants that complete their life cycle over one or two growing seasons.
Bulbs & Geophytes: Plants with underground storage organs such as bulbs, corms, tubers or rhizomes, allowing them to persist through seasonal dormancy.
Cacti & Succulents: Cacti and other succulent plants with fleshy or thickened tissues associated with water storage, spanning many unrelated botanical groups.
Aquatic & Pond Plants: Plants adapted to living in water or water-saturated soils, including submerged, floating and emergent forms.
Air Plants & Epiphytes: Epiphytic and lithophytic plants that grow on trees or rocks, including many plants commonly described as air plants.

3. Native range (WGSRPD)

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About WGSRPD mapping

SilvaGrid uses the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) to organise native plant distributions. WGSRPD is an international botanical standard maintained by Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) and is also used by the World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP).

Botanical geography: SilvaGrid uses WGSRPD continents, regions and "botanical countries". These provide consistent units for recording plant distributions, but they do not always correspond exactly to modern political countries.
Consistent distribution data: Using the same geographic framework as WCVP allows SilvaGrid to preserve and compare native-range information consistently across the global plant dataset.

WGSRPD is a system for recording plant distributions rather than a climate, habitat or site-suitability classification.

Genus Pisonia

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Classified within the Nyctaginaceae family, the genus Pisonia is a group comprising 29 taxa. It is widespread across the Pacific, and is also natively found in North America, South America, Africa, Temperate Asia, Tropical Asia, and Australasia. Across its taxa, it is commonly associated with wet tropical and seasonally dry tropical climate conditions. It features a mix of trees and shrubs.

Data Profile

Taxonomic Scale: 29 taxa (27 base species, 2 variants).
Centers of Diversity: South America (25), North America (9), Africa (4)
Primary Climates: Wet Tropical (14), Seasonally Dry Tropical (12), Desert Or Dry Shrubland (3)
Dominant Forms: Trees (20), Shrubs (9)

29 taxa found

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Pisonia aculeata

— Cockspur, Cockspur Vine Family: Nyctaginaceae

Tropical Shrubs Climbers & Vines

Pisonia albida

— Corcho Bobo Family: Nyctaginaceae

Pisonia ambigua

Family: Nyctaginaceae

Pisonia byrsonimifolia

Family: Nyctaginaceae

Pisonia calafia

Family: Nyctaginaceae

Pisonia capitata

— Mexican Devil's Claws Family: Nyctaginaceae

Tropical Shrubs

Pisonia costata

Family: Nyctaginaceae

Pisonia donnellsmithii

Family: Nyctaginaceae

Pisonia ekmanii

Family: Nyctaginaceae

Pisonia flavescens

Family: Nyctaginaceae

Pisonia floribunda

— Galapagos Pisonia Family: Nyctaginaceae

Pisonia grandis

— Cabbagetree, Grand Devil's Claws Family: Nyctaginaceae

Tropical Trees Shrubs

Pisonia horneae

Family: Nyctaginaceae

Pisonia indecora

Family: Nyctaginaceae

Pisonia jamaicensis

Family: Nyctaginaceae

Pisonia macranthocarpa

Family: Nyctaginaceae

Tropical Trees Shrubs

Pisonia margaretiae

Family: Nyctaginaceae

Pisonia ochracea

Family: Nyctaginaceae

Tropical Trees Shrubs

Pisonia petenensis

Family: Nyctaginaceae

Pisonia petiolaris

Family: Nyctaginaceae

Pisonia proctorii

Family: Nyctaginaceae

Tropical Climbers & Vines

Pisonia roqueae

Family: Nyctaginaceae

Pisonia rotundata

— Smooth Devil's Claws Family: Nyctaginaceae

Tropical Trees Shrubs

Pisonia rotundata subsp. acutiuscula

Family: Nyctaginaceae

Tropical Trees Shrubs

Pisonia rotundata subsp. rotundata

Family: Nyctaginaceae

Tropical Trees Shrubs

Pisonia silvatica

Family: Nyctaginaceae

Tropical Trees Shrubs

Pisonia subcordata

— Black Loblolly, Bladdy Tree Family: Nyctaginaceae

Pisonia taina

Family: Nyctaginaceae

Pisonia zapallo

Family: Nyctaginaceae

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