Pollichia campestris

Barley Sugar Bush

Summary of the structured data documented in ClimaFlora for this taxon.

Shrub

Nicola van Berkel · CC BY-SA 4.0 · wikimedia_commons · source

Hannah Mungai · CC BY-SA 4.0 · plantnet_gbif · source

Kevin Murray · CC BY 4.0 · wikimedia_commons · source

1 / 3

Identity and native distribution

Family

—

Life form

Shrub

Documented native regions

AfricaTemperate Asia

Animal foodHuman foodMaterialsMedicinal use

Variable	Observed range	Central range
Annual mean temperature	7.01 – 30.73	8.81 – 29.73
Temperature of the warmest month	18.51 – 44.05	19.71 – 43.45
Temperature of the coldest month	-7.67 – 22.09	-4.61 – 21.37
Annual precipitation	25.62 – 1788.72	53.98 – 1429.98
Precipitation seasonality	27.28 – 151.62	39.94 – 133.5

These values describe the documented climate envelope of the taxon. They are not, by themselves, a local recommendation.

Variable	Unit	Observed range	Central range
Cation exchange capacity (CEC)	cmol(+)/kg	11.4 – 20.9	13.8 – 14.25
Clay	%	10.68 – 32.8	14.6 – 15.6
Coarse fragments	%	10.18 – 19.9	11.8 – 14.2
Total nitrogen	g/kg	0.47 – 1.27	0.49 – 0.55
pH	—	6.75 – 7.74	7.5 – 7.6
Sand	%	44.84 – 78.67	70.8 – 72.9
Soil organic carbon	g/kg	3.2 – 12.76	3.5 – 4.1

These soil preferences should be compared with the site profile and the confidence of the local data.