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Inga portobellensis

Overview

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Vulnerable
Threat status

Description

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Family Fabaceae

The Fabaceae are herbs, vines , shrubs , trees , and lianas found in both temperate and tropical areas. They comprise one of the largest families of flowering plants , numbering 630 genera and 18,000 species. The leaves are stipulate , nearly always alternate, and range from bipinnately or palmately compound to simple . The petiole base is commonly enlarged into a pulvinus that commonly functions in orientation of the leaves (sometimes very responsively, as in the sensitive plant, Mimosa pudica). The flowers are usually bisexual , actinomorphic to zygomorphic, slightly to strongly perigynous, and commonly in racemes , spikes, or heads . The perianth commonly consists of a calyx and corolla of 5 segments each. The androecium consists of commonly 1- many stamens (most commonly 10), distinct or variously united , sometimes some of them reduced to staminodes. The pistil is simple, often stipitate , comprising a single style and stigma, and a superior ovary with one locule containing 2-many marginal ovules. The fruit is usually a legume, sometimes a samara, loment, follicle, indehiscent pod, achene, drupe, or berry. The seeds often have a hard coat with hourglass-shaped cells , and sometimes bear a u-shaped line called a pleurogram. [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

Habit: Tree • Climbing: Not Climbing

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 4,936 meters (0 to 16,194 feet).[1]

Ecology: This tree occurs in gallery forest along rivers and sandbars below 100 m. [2]

Biology

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Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Taxonomy

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Unambiguous Synonyms

  1. Inga macrophylla Beurl.

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: –

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Inga

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 787 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

I. acicularis · I. acreana · I. acrocephala (Witte Bast Switbonki) · I. acuminata · I. acutifolia · I. adenophylla · I. adiantifolia · I. aestuariorum · I. affinis (Inga Da Beira Do Rio) · I. aggregata · I. alata · I. alatocarpa · I. alba · I. albicans · I. albicoria · I. aliena · I. allenii · I. alternifolia · I. altissima · I. amazonica · I. amazonica var. amazonica · I. amazonica var. bracteifera · I. amazonica var. lomatophylla · I. amazonica var. membranacea · I. amboroensis · I. andersonii · I. angulata · I. angustifolia · I. annularis · I. anomala · I. antioquensis · I. apiculata · I. approximata · I. apta · I. aptera · I. archeri · I. arenicola · I. aria · I. arinensis · I. asplenioides · I. assimilis · I. atropicta · I. attenuata · I. augusti · I. augustii · I. auristella · I. auristellae · I. bahiensis · I. balaensis · I. balsapambensis · I. bangii · I. barbata · I. barbourii · I. bauhiniaefolia · I. belizensis · I. bella · I. berteriana · I. berteroana · I. bicoloriflora · I. biglobosa · I. bijuga · I. billbergiana · I. biolleyana · I. blanchetiana · I. bolivariana · I. boliviana · I. bollandii · I. bonplandiana · I. borealis · I. bourgoni · I. bourgonii · I. brachyptera · I. brachyrachis · I. brachyrhachis · I. brachystachya · I. brachystachys · I. bracteifera · I. bracteosa · I. brenesii · I. brevialata · I. brevimba · I. brevipedicellata · I. brevipes · I. brevituba · I. brunnescens · I. bullata · I. bullata var. bullata · I. bullata var. glabrescens · I. bullatorugosa · I. byrsinocarpa · I. cabelo (Inga Cabelo) · I. cabrerae · I. caffra · I. calantha · I. calanthoides · I. calcicola (Guatope) · I. caldasiana · I. calderoni · I. calderonii · I. callicarpa

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Notes

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Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal January 28, 2008:

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Footnotes

  1. Mean = 441.820 meters (1,449.541 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,258.420 based on 65 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
  2. World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008. [back]
Last Revised: 7/2/2009