Inga sapindoides
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Inga sapindoides is a tree from the subfamily of the mimosa family (Mimosoideae). It is native to Central and South America.
description
Inga sapindoides is a tree up to 16 meters high with dense, fluffy, rust-red haired, cork-black branches. The leaves, which are bare on the upper side and have yellowish, fine-fluffy hair on the underside, are three to four-fold pinnate, the leaflets lanceolate to elliptical. The outermost pair of leaflets is 9 to 28 centimeters long and 5 to 13 centimeters wide, the innermost 5 to 12 centimeters long and 3 to 6 centimeters wide.
The petiole is also winged like the leaf hachis, between each pair of leaves there are glands. The stipules are 0.8 to 1.8 inches long and 0.4 to 1 inches wide, egg-shaped and permanent.
The inflorescences are spikes. The shaft is up to 1 centimeter long. The flowers are sessile. The green or yellowish, square fruits are 11 to 30 centimeters long and 2 to 3 centimeters wide and bare.
The number of chromosomes is 2n = 26.
distribution
Inga sapindoides is native from Mexico via the Antilles to Venezuela and Peru, where she inhabits forests of the lowlands.
Systematics and botanical history
The species was first described by Carl Ludwig Willdenow in 1806 .
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. 282, ISSN 0252-192X / ISBN 3854740727 , PDF on ZOBODAT
Individual evidence
- ^ Inga sapindoides at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis