Inga spectabilis

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Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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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 3,028 meters (0 to 9,934 feet).[1]

Biology

Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Feuilleea spectabilis (Vahl) Kuntze • Feuilleea spectabilis (Vahl)kuntze • Inga fulgens (Labill.)kunth • Inga lucida Kunth • Inga smithii Britton & Killip • Mimosa spectabilis Vahl

Notes

Publishing author : Willd. Publication : Sp. Pl., ed. 4 [Willdenow] 4(2): 1017 1806 [Apr 1806]

Basionym author: (Vahl)

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Comment: Climbing : Not climbing, 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

• A dictionary of English names of plants applied in England and among English-speaking people to cultivated and wild plants, trees, and shrubs, by William Miller; in two parts, English-Latin and Latin-English. London, J. Murray, 1884. url p. 59.
• Agricultural news. Bridgetown, Barbados, Bowen & sons;1902-22. url p. 422, p. 63.
• Bulletin / Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington: G.P.O., 1901-1971. url p. 111, p. 692.
• Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 27 1928 Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1890- url p. 191, p. 200, p. 201.
• Flora of Costa Rica. .. by Paul C. Standley. .. 18 1937 Chicago, 1937. url p. 499.
• Green manures and manuring in the tropics, including an account of the economic value of leguminosæ as sources of foodstuffs, vegetable oils, drugs, &c. By P. de Sornay. .. tr. by F.W. Flattely. .. from the well-known work, "Les plantes tropicales alimentaires et industrielles de la famille des légumineuses." London, J. Bale, Sons & Danielsson, Ltd., 1916. url .
• I. Supplement to the flora of Barro Colorado island, Panama [by] Leslie A. Kenoyer and Paul C. Standley. 4 1929 Chicago, 1929. url p. 150.
• IUCN Directory of Neotropical Protected Areas IUCN url p. 145.
• Journal of ethnobiology. 24 2004 Flagstaff, Ariz.: Center for Western Studies, 1981- url p. 294.
• Phytologia. Bronx Park, New York, H.A. Gleason and H.N. Moldenke, url p. 241, p. 268.
• Sturtevant's notes on edible plants / Edited by U.P. Hedrick. Albany: J.B. Lyon, 1919. url p. 313.
• The Bradley bibliography; a guide to the literature of the woody plants of the world published before the beginning of the twentieth century; Cambridge, Riverside Press, 1911-18. url p. 366.
• The Florists' exchange: a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general. New York, N.Y.: [A.T. De la Mare Ptg. and Pub. Co., url p. 798.

Notes

Contributors

• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed January 28, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 12 providers.
• ILDIS World Database of Legumes. Release date: May 1, 2007
• 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 (May 04, 2008)

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal January 28, 2008:

• Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Andes to Amazon Biodiversity Program
• GBIF-Sweden, Internation Botanical Collections
• Herbarium of the University of Aarhus, The AAU Herbarium Database
• Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad
• , Biodiversidad de Costa Rica
• Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
• University of Vienna, Institute for Botany - Herbarium WU, Herbarium WU

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2836708
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ILD-11462
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13638557
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:500823-1
• GRIN Nomen Number: 20094
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 1122303-1
• MoBot NameID: 13021384
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 400153

Footnotes

1. Mean = 498.370 meters (1,635.072 feet), Standard Deviation = 927.810 based on 196 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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