Inga multijuga
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Inga multijuga is a species of tree from the subfamily of the mimosa family (Mimosoideae). It is native to Central and South America.
description
Inga multijuga is a tree up to 20 meters high with gray-brown bark and rust-red, downy, hairy branches. The short stiffly haired leaves are seven to ten-fold pinnate, the leaflets elliptical, elongated-round elliptical or inverted lanceolate. The outermost pair of leaflets is 9.6 to 15.2, rarely from 7 inches long and 3 to 5.2, rarely 2.5 to 6 inches wide, the innermost 3.6 to 7 inches long and 2.1 to 3.3 Inches wide.
The leaf hachis is 7 to 16.5 inches long, wingless and cylindrical in cross section. The glands are large and plate-shaped. The stipules are 1.5 to 2 millimeters long and obsolete.
The inflorescences are dense spikes that arise from the leaf axils and stand individually or in groups. The shaft is 1.5 to 5.5 centimeters long, the finely hairy rachis 1.5 to 2 centimeters long. The flowers are sessile, greenish, the stamens white. The fruits are shiny, straight or curved, 15 to 26 inches long and 1.5 to 3.5 inches wide.
distribution
Inga multijuga is native from Mexico to Venezuela and Ecuador.
Systematics and botanical history
The species was first described by George Bentham in 1875 .
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. 281, ISSN 0252-192X / ISBN 3854740727 , PDF on ZOBODAT