Inga litoralis

Inga litoralis is a tree species of the subfamily of the mimosa family ( Mimosoideae ). It is native to Costa Rica.

Description

Inga litoralis is a small tree with dense rust-colored fluffy hairy, weak korkwarzigen branches. The bare leaves are pinnate triple pairs, the leaflets elliptic and hairy hand tight rust. The outermost pair of leaflets is 14.6 to 23 inches long and 5 to 10 inches wide, the innermost 3-9 inches long and 1.3 to 5 centimeters wide.

The Blattrhachis is 5 to 10 inches long and winged, the petiole winged cylindrical and weak. Between each pair of leaflets is very thin, Short-stalked glands found. The lanceolate stipules are 4 millimeters long and redundant.

The inflorescences are dense to loose ears. They arise from the leaf axils and are available individually or in groups. The shaft is 3.3 to 7 inches long, the rachis 2.5 to 6 inches long. The flowers are sessile. The flat fruits are just 14 to 25 centimeters long, 1.3 to 2 inches wide and densely hairy bristly.

Dissemination

Inga litoralis is endemic to Costa Rica, they settled there deciduous seasonal rainforests.

Systematics and Botanical History

The species was first described by Nelson A. Zamora 1991.

Evidence

• Anton Weber, Werner Huber, Anton Weiss Hofer, Nelson Zamora, Georg Zimmermann: An Introductory Field Guide To The Flowering Plants Of The Golfo Dulce Rain Forests of Costa Rica, Stapfia 78, 2001, p.280, ISSN 0252 - 192X / ISBN 3-85474 -072-7

• Mimosa plants
• Mimosoideae