Inga alba

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Rosids
Cladus: Eurosids I
Ordo: Fabales

Familia: Fabaceae
Subfamilia: Caesalpinioideae
Tribus: Ingeae
Genus: Inga
Species: Inga alba
Name

Inga alba (Sw.) Willd.
References

Species Plantarum 4(2):1013. 1806
USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Inga alba in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 07-Oct-06.

Inga alba is a species of tree from the family Fabaceae, native to Central and South America. The common name in English is white inga.[2]

Description

Inga alba can grow up to 40 m in height. It has red bark and 4 to 5 leaf pairs (occasionally 3 or 6 pairs), with the distal pair 6.1–10 cm long and 2.5—7.7 cm wide. The rachis is 5—13.5 cm long and wingless. The glands are cone-shaped, the stipules obsolete. The inflorescences are short, the shaft is 4–20 mm long and the rachis 5–8 mm long. The flowers are pale green and the stamen are white. The fruits are flat up to 14 cm long and 2 cm wide.[3] It flowers between August and November and bares fruit between January and March.[4]
Distribution

Inga alba's distribution ranges from Mexico and Central America down to Peru, Bolivia and Brazil in South America.[5]
Classification

The species was in originally described in 1788 by Olof Swartz as Mimosa alba. It was placed in the genus Inga in 1806 by Carl Ludwig von Willdenow.
References

"The Plant List: A Working List of All Plant Species".
Grandtner, MM; Chevrette, Julien (2013). Dictionary of Trees, Volume 2: South America: Nomenclature, Taxonomy and Ecology. Academic Press. p. 318.
Baumgartner, Thomas (2001). An Introductory Field Guide To The Flowering Plants Of The Golfo Dulce Rainforests of Costa Rica, Volume 78. Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum. p. 278. ISBN 9783854740728.
Lobo, Jorge; et al. (2008). "Phenology of tree species of the Osa Peninsula and Golfo Dulce region, Costa Rica" (PDF). Stapfia. 88 (zugleich Kataloge der oberösterreichischen Landesmuseen Neue Serie 80): 547–555.

"Localities documented in Tropicos sources". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2013-06-28.

"Inga alba". Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). Agricultural Research Service (ARS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 28 June 2013.