Inga polita
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Inga polita is a species of tree from the subfamily of the mimosa family (Mimosoideae). It is native to Central and South America.
description
Inga polita is a tree up to 18 meters high with gray bark and cork-black , dark brown branches . The bare leaves are pinnate to two pairs of pinnate, the leaflets ovate. The outermost pair of leaflets is 5.5 to 20.6 centimeters long and 2.1 to 7.2, rarely up to 10 centimeters wide.
The petiole is cylindrical in cross section, rarely weakly winged, the leaf hachis is weakly winged, glands are found between each pair of leaflets. The stipules are 5 to 10 millimeters long and obsolete.
The one or two umbel-like inflorescences arise from the leaf axils. The shaft is 5 to 10 millimeters long and hairy, the rachis 2 to 3 millimeters long. The flowers are white, the stamens white, the anthers greenish yellow. The bare fruits are flat, 9 to 10 inches long and 1.9 to 2 inches wide.
distribution
Inga polita occurs exclusively in the Neotropic . It is native there from the southeast of Costa Rica to the Pacific coast of Colombia . It inhabits forests in the lowlands as well as the low montane level.
Systematics and botanical history
The species was first described in 1936 by Ellsworth Paine Killip .
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