Inga venusta
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Inga venusta is a species of tree from the subfamily of the mimosa family (Mimosoideae). It is native to Central and South America.
description
Inga venusta is a tree up to 40 meters high with gray-brown bark . The bare or downy hairy leaves are pinnate three to fourfold, the leaflets oblong-round to elliptical. The outermost pair of leaflets is 15 to 29, rarely from 9 centimeters long and 5.9 to 13.5, rarely from 3 centimeters wide, the innermost 6.5 to 18.5 centimeters long and 3 to 11 centimeters wide.
The petiole is winged as well as the 5 to 28 centimeters long, bald or downy hairy leaf hachis. The glands are cup-shaped. The stipules are 5 to 10 millimeters long and obsolete.
The inflorescences arise from the leaf axils and are sometimes in groups of up to five dense ears . The shaft is 2 to 5 centimeters long, the rachis 0.8 to 3 centimeters long. The flowers are yellow to green-yellow, the stamens light yellow. The bare fruits are brown, 15 to 35 inches long and 3.5 to 4.5 inches wide.
distribution
Inga venusta is native from Costa Rica to Colombia and Ecuador.
Systematics and botanical history
The species was first described by Paul Carpenter Standley in 1937 .
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. 283, ISSN 0252-192X / ISBN 3854740727 , PDF on ZOBODAT