Inga cylindrica
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Inga cylindrica is a species of tree from the subfamily of the mimosa family (Mimosoideae). It is native to Central and South America.
description
Inga cylindrica is a small tree with short, branched trunks and bare branches. The leaves are three to four times pinnate in pairs. The outermost pair of leaflets is 6 to 10.5, rarely up to 12.5 centimeters long and 2 to 3.7, rarely 1.7 to 4.5 centimeters wide.
The leaf hachis is 5 to 7.5 centimeters long and, like the petiole, cylindrical in cross-section, i.e. wingless. The glands are strongly developed, the stipules 3 to 9 millimeters long and decrepit.
The inflorescences arise from the leaf axils and the axils of fallen leaves and stand individually or in groups. The shaft is 1.5 to 3.5 centimeters long, the rachis 4.5 to 15 centimeters. The fragrant flowers are white. The fruits are bloated or bumpy above the seeds and tightly constricted in between, about 1.5 centimeters wide, light green and shiny.
distribution
The species is native from Costa Rica to Bolivia and central Brazil.
Systematics and botanical history
The species was first described in 1831 by José Mariano da Conceição Vellozo as Mimosa cylindrica and placed in the genus Inga by Karl Friedrich Philipp von Martius in 1837 .
proof
- Anton Weber, Werner Huber, Anton Weissenhofer, Nelson Zamora, Georg Zimmermann: An Introductory Field Guide To The Flowering Plants Of The Golfo Dulce Rain Forests Costa Rica. In: Stapfia. Volume 78, Linz 2001, p. 278, ISSN 0252-192X / ISBN 3854740727 , PDF on ZOBODAT