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Inga acrocephala Steud.

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HIGHER TAXON: Ingeae

GENUS: Inga Mill.

Inga acrocephala Steud. [Preferred name]

  
VERNACULAR NAME:
  Chalahuite [3355]; Swietiboontje [3355]; Vaina [3355]; Witte Bast Switbonki [3355]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Caribbean
Honduran Caribbean Is (N) [3355]
  Central America
Belize (N) [3328]; Costa Rica (N) [3355]; El Salvador (N) [3355]; Guatemala (N) [3328, 3355]; Honduras (N) [3355]; Mexico(North & Central) (N) [3329, 3355]; Oaxaca [3329]; Veracruz [3355]; Mexico(South East) (N) [3355]; Chiapas [3355]; Nicaragua (N) [3328, 3348]; Panama (N) [3355]
  South America
Bolivia (N) [3328]; Brazil (N) [1356, 3329]; Amazonas [3329]; Colombia (N) [3328]; Ecuador (N) [3328, 3348]; French Guiana (N) [1524, 3348]; Guyana (N) [3348, 3355]; Peru (N) [3328]; Surinam (N) [1071, 1356, 1378, 1408, 1515, 1524]; Venezuela (N) [1170]

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [3348, 3355] ; Distribution Map [3355] ; Illustration [3355]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing ; Further editing: 2003-07 Brewer PW, 2005-07 (Americas update) Sokolova IV [3348] ; Habit: Tree ; Lifespan: Perennial ; Scrutinised globally by taxonomic co-ordinator: 1994 Nielsen IC & Rico ML ; Source(s): 1988 (Americas) Zarucchi JL

  
USES:
  Miscellaneous [3355]

  
NOTES:
  TROPICOS Specimen, Ecuador - 00073679 []
  TROPICOS Specimen, Bolivia - 00102935 []
  TROPICOS Specimen, Belize - 01185102 []
  Used as a shade crop for coffee in Verzcruz, Mexico [3355]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

1071.

  Baretta-Kuipers, T., 1973
    Acta.Bot.Neerl.22(3):193-205...Wood-anat. research...Inga

1170.

  Cardenas de Guevara, L., 1974
    Revista Fac.Agron.Maracay 7(3):109-194Generos Venezolanos-Mi

1356.

  Irwin, H.S., 1966
    Mem.New York Bot.Gard.15(1):96-111..Botany of Guiana. III...

1524.

  Poncy, O., 1985
    Mem.Mus.Natl.Hist.Nat.,Ser.B,Bot.31:1-124,pl.I-XI Genre Inga

3328.

  USDA, NRCS, 2002
    The Plants Database, Version 3.5 - http://plants.usda.gov

3329.

  RBG Kew Herbarium, 2003
    Specimen in RBG Kew Herbarium, see notes for species

3348.

  Stevens, W.D., et al., 2001
    Flora de Nicaragua,85(2)...Missouri Bot.Gard.Press

3355.

  Pennington, T.D., 1997
    The Genus Inga: Botany. RBG Kew.
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