Inga nobilis

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• Common Names
• Description
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Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Family Mimosaceae

The Mimosaceae are mostly tropical and subtropical trees and shrubs comprising about 40 genera and 2,000 species. The leaves are nearly always alternate, stipulate , and bipinnately compound (rarely once-pinnate) They usually have swollen petiole bases called pulvini that commonly function in orientation of the leaves (remember the sensitive plant, Mimosa pudica). The inflorescence is commonly a capitulum (also called a head ). The flowers are hypogynous to slightly perigynous, have radial symmetry, petals that are valvate in bud, and commonly a 5-parted calyx and corolla. The stamens are distinct to strongly monadelphous , numerous (rarely as few as 10), and are generally more showy than the perianth. The pistil is simple , comprising a single style and stigma, and a superior ovary with 2-many marginal ovules in a solitary locule. The fruit is usually a legume. -- Gerald Carr

Subfamily Mimosoideae

Mostly trees or shrubs . Leaves mostly bipinnate. Corolla usually not showy, actinomorphic , sympetalous , the lobes valvate . Stamens 10-numerous, often monadelphous , showy. Pollen released in monads , tetrads , or polyads . Seeds with u-shaped line (pleurogram) present. [Carr]

Physical Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 4,936 meters (0 to 16,194 feet).[1]

Biology

Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Feuilleea nobilis (Willd.) Kuntze • Feuilleea nobilis (Willd.)kuntze • Inga conglomerata Benoist • Inga corymbifera Benth. • Inga humboldtiana Kunth • Inga mathewsiana Benth. • Inga riedeliana Benth. • Inga riedeliana var. surinamensis Benth. • Inga sericantha Miq.

Notes

Publishing author : Willd. Publication : Enum. Pl. [Willdenow] 1047 1809

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Comment: Climbing : Not climbing, Conservation Status: Not Threatened, Habit: Tree , Lifespan: Perennial

Last scrutiny: 1994

Similar Species

Members of the genus Inga

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 58 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

I. acrocephala (Witte Bast Switbonki) · I. affinis (Inga Da Beira Do Rio) · I. cabelo (Inga Cabelo) · I. calcicola (Guatope) · I. cardozana (Guamo) · I. carinata (Guaba De Mico) · I. ciliata subcapitata (Cachig) · I. cuspidata (Guamo De Monte) · I. cyclocarpa (Bois Tanniste Rouge) · I. dasycarpa (Sakil Kok) · I. davidsei (Guama Peluda) · I. densiflora (Guava Blanca) · I. edulis (Guama) · I. edulis var. edulis (Ice-Cream-Bean) · I. exfoliata (Inga Miudo) · I. ferruginea (Albizia) · I. feuilleei (Ice-Cream Bean) · I. goldmanii (Guava Peluda) · I. hayesii (Guamo) · I. huastecana (Chalahuite Chicha) · I. ilta (Guaba Ilta) · I. ingoides (Icecream Bean) · I. interrupta (Guamo Colorado) · I. ismaelis (Guagenecuil De La Montana) · I. japurensis (Yakum Sampi) · I. jinicuil (Guava Negra) · I. laurina (Caspiro) · I. luschnathiana (Inga Cachorro) · I. manabiensis (Guaba De Mico) · I. micheliana (Cuajiniquil) · I. multijuga subsp. aestuariorum (Guaba De Montana) · I. multijuga subsp. mexicana (Ahuatope) · I. multinervis (Paa Bego) · I. nobilis (Guama Venezolano) · I. nobilis nobilis (Guamo) · I. nobilis quaternata (Guama Venezolano) · I. nobilis subsp. quaternata (Pacaecillo Del Canto Del Rio) · I. oerstediana (Cuajiniquil Peludo) · I. paterno (Guabo Caite) · I. pauciflora (Guabita De R) · I. pavoniana (Cuasilote) · I. pluricarpellata (Rosca Pacae) · I. punctata (Acotope) · I. quaternata (Guama Venezolano) · I. quaternata quaternata (Guama Venezolano) · I. saman (Vaivai Ni Vavalagi) · I. sertulifera subsp. leptopus (Shimbillo Colorado) · I. sierrae (Guabo Peludo) · I. silanchensis (Guaba Machete) · I. sinacae (Vaina Peluda) · I. spectabilis (Ice Cream Bean) · I. striolata (Pacae) · I. thibaudiana (Guavo De Playa) · I. tomentosa (Pacae) · I. uruguensis (Inga Banana) · I. vera (River Koko) · I. vera subsp. eriocarpa (Jacanicuil) · I. zygia (Red Nongo)

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Further Reading

• An enumeration of the vascular plants known from Surinam: together with their distribution and synonymy / by A. Pulle. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1906. url p. 201, p. 506, p. 529.
• Biologia centrali-americana; or, Contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America. London, Pub. for the editors by R. H. Porter and Dulau & co., 1879-88. url .
• Botanical Museum leaflets, Harvard University. 30 1984-1986 Cambridge, Mass.: Botanical Museum, Harvard University, 1932- url p. 262.
• Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden. 12 1922-1924 Lancaster, Pa.: Published for the Garden by the New Era Printing Co., url p. 301.
• Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. 17 1890 New York: Torrey Botanical Club, 1870-1996 url p. 9.
• Contributions from the Herbarium of Columbia College. New York: Columbia College, 1886-1896. url p. 201.
• Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 50 2004 Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1890- url p. 113, p. 135, p. 186, p. 50, p. 61, p. 63, p. 65, p. 88, p. 96.
• Fifty years of botany; golden jubilee volume of the Botanical Society of America, edited by William Campbell Steere. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1958. url p. 266.
• Flora of Peru / by J. Francis Macbride. 13 1943 Chicago, [Ill.]: Field Museum of Natural History, [1943] url p. 31, p. 33.
• Journal of ethnobiology. 24 2004 Flagstaff, Ariz.: Center for Western Studies, 1981- url p. 305, p. 306.
• Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 2nd series: Botany 4 1894-1896 London. url p. 275, p. 286, p. 350.
• Tropical and subtropical fruits / by B. E. Dahlgren, Curator Emeritus, Dept. of Botany, Drawings by Albert Frey. [Chicago]:Chicago Natural History Museum, 1947. url p. 44.

Notes

Contributors

• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed April 5, 2007.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed December 29, 2006. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 providers.
• ILDIS World Database of Legumes. Release date: May 1, 2007
• ILDIS World Database of LegumesNov 10, 2005.
• Nielsen IC & Rico ML, 1994 (from ILDIS).
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
• The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Dec 27, 2011.
• USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL (April 28, 2008)

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 25, 2007:

• Australian National Herbarium
• , Australian National Herbarium
• Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Andes to Amazon Biodiversity Program
• GBIF-Spain, Real Jardin Botanico
• , Vascular Plant Herbarium
• Herbarium of the University of Aarhus, The AAU Herbarium Database
• Herbier de la Guyane, Herbier de la Guyane
• Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad
• , Biodiversidad de Costa Rica
• Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• SysTax, Herbarium Universitat Ulm
• SysTax, SysTax
• University of Vienna, Institute for Botany - Herbarium WU, Herbarium WU

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2676367
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ILD-8634
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13641835
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:500642-1
• GRIN Nomen Number: 405499
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 565240
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 128633-2
• MoBot NameID: 13008849
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: INNOQ
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 44067

Footnotes

1. Mean = 491.550 meters (1,612.697 feet), Standard Deviation = 957.200 based on 369 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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