Inga jimenezii

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

Description

Inga jimenezii is a small tree with dense rust-colored fluffy hairy, weak korkwarzigen branches. The bare leaves are usually pinnate dual pairs, the leaflets elliptic to slightly ovate, on top of weak bristly hairy on the underside. The outermost pair of leaves is 19 to 22 inches long and 7 to 10.5 inches wide, the innermost 4.5 to 9 inches long and 2.1 to 5 centimeters wide.

The Blattrhachis is 4.4 to 5.5 inches long and winged like the petiole. Between each pair of leaflets stalked glands found. The lanceolate stipules are 1.5 to 2 millimeters long and continuous.

The inflorescences are dense spikes, they spring from the leaf axils and are available individually. The shaft is 2.5 to 4.2 inches long and very hairy, the rachis 2.5 to 4 inches long. The flowers are sessile and up to 2 inches long. The flat fruits are 13 to 16 centimeters long, 2.5 to 3.5 inches wide and densely pubescent rust.

Dissemination

Inga jimenezii 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.278, ISSN 0252 - 192X / ISBN 3-85474 -072-7

• Mimosa plants
• Mimosoideae