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Inga latipes

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Tree
Native range
Costa Rica, Colombia
Climate
wet tropical

About

Inga latipes is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. It is a tree native to Costa Rica and Colombia, where it is known from a single location. It is a medium to large tree, 7 to 30 metres tall, which flowers in August and September and fruits in March, June, July and August. It grows in lowland and montane rain forests, including wet and pluvial premontane and montane forests and cloud forests, at elevations of 450 to 1,700 metres elevation.

Other Inga plants

Inga adenophylla · White Inga · Inga allenii · Inga amboroensis · Inga andersonii · Inga approximata · Inga aptera · Inga arenicola · Inga augusti · Inga balsapambensis · Inga barbata · Inga bella

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Inga latipes by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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