Inga thibaudiana

Inga thibaudiana is a tree species of the subfamily of the mimosa family ( Mimosoideae ). It is native to Central and South America.

Description

Inga thibaudiana is up to 25 meters tall tree with green, gray and reddish- brown mottled bark and dark brown, rust red fluffy hairy branches. The upper side and lower side densely puberulous bald hairy leaves are five to six times pinnate pairs usually, the leaflets elliptic to oblanceolate. The outermost pair of leaflets is from 7.4 to 17.5 inches long and 2.8 to 7.6 inches wide, the innermost 3 to 10.2 inches long and 1.5 to 4.9 inches wide.

The petiole is just like the 7 to 20 centimeters long Blattrhachis winged or cylindrical, cup-shaped sitting, green to orange or black glands between each pair of leaves. The stipules are 1-3 mm long, hairy and void.

The inflorescences are achselbürtige, dense spikes that are in groups of two to five. The stem is 1-4 inches long and fluffy hairy rusty red, the rachis 1 to 3.5 inches long. The flowers are yellowish- green, the stamens white. The flat, straight or curved fruits are 8 to 30 inches long and 1.8 to 2.5 inches wide.

Dissemination

Inga thibaudiana is native from Mexico to Bolivia and central Brazil.

Systematics and Botanical History

The species was first described in 1825 by Augustin- de Candolle Pyrame.

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.282, ISSN 0252 - 192X / ISBN 3854740727

• Mimosa plants
• Mimosoideae