Inga pezizifera
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Inga pezizifera is a tree from the subfamily of the mimosa family (Mimosoideae). It is native to Central and South America.
description
Inga pezizifera is a tree up to 35 meters high with pale brown bark and cork-black , downy, hairy branches. The leaves , glabrous or rust-red, fine-fluffy along the veins and with short stiff hairs on the underside, are four to five, rarely triply pinnate, the leaflets elliptical, ovate or lanceolate. The outermost pair of leaflets is 11.6 to 19 centimeters long and 4.3 to 8.4, rarely up to 10 centimeters wide, the innermost 5 to 9.3 centimeters long and 2.3 to 5 centimeters wide.
The leaf hachis is 8.5 to 14.2 inches long, hairless to finely fluffy and cylindrical in cross section. The glands are plate-shaped. The stipules are 3 to 12 millimeters long and deciduous.
The inflorescences arise from the leaf axils or the axils of non-developed leaves and are usually in groups of one to six dense grapes . The shaft is 2.5 to 6 inches long, the rachis 1.5 to 3.5 inches long. The flowers are green, the stamens white. The bare fruits are flat, 15 to 21 inches long and 2 to 4 inches wide.
distribution
Inga pezizifera is native from Costa Rica to the Amazon regions of Ecuador and Brazil.
Systematics and botanical history
The species was first described by George Bentham in 1845 .
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