Inga oerstediana
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Inga oerstediana is a species of tree from the subfamily of the mimosa family (Mimosoideae). It is native to Central and South America.
description
Inga oerstediana is a tree up to 30 meters high with gray bark and cork-black , downy, hairy branches. The rust-red, fine-haired leaves on the underside are three to five-fold pinnate, the leaflets broadly elliptical to obovate. The outermost pair of leaflets is 11 to 20 centimeters long and 5 to 11 centimeters wide, the innermost 3.5 to 11 centimeters long and 2 to 6 centimeters wide.
The leaf hachis is 6 to 21 centimeters long, wingless or winged and cylindrical in cross section. The glands have transverse, broad bulges. The stipules are 2 to 3 millimeters long and obsolete.
The inflorescences arise from the leaf axils or the axils of undeveloped leaves and are usually in groups of one to three dense ears. The shaft is 1 to 9 centimeters long and hairy, the rhachis 1 to 4 centimeters long. The flowers are brownish-green to greenish-yellow, the stamens white. The fruits are cylindrical, 20 to 30 centimeters long and 1 to 2.5 centimeters wide and have rust-red, fine-haired hairs.
The number of chromosomes is 2n = 26.
distribution
Inga oerstediana is native from Mexico via the Antilles to western South America and Bolivia, she colonizes rainforests of the lowlands and highlands.
Systematics and botanical history
The species was first described by George Bentham in 1853 .
literature
- 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
Individual evidence
- ^ Inga oerstediana at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis