Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Inga recordii Britton & Rose; Standley, Tropical Woods 7: 5. 1926.
A medium-sized tree, the twigs puberulent. Stipules wanting; petiole 1-2 cm. long, terete; rachis of leaf wingless, pubescent, bearing large cup-shaped glands between the leaflets; leaflets 5 or 6 pairs, lanceolate, long-acuminate, 5-13 cm. long, shining and somewhat pubescent above, pale and appressed-pubescent beneath; spikes 2-4 cm. long, axillary or in terminal panicles; peduncles 1-2 cm. long; bractlets minute ; calyx 4— 5 mm. long, appressed-pubescent ; corolla slender, 18 mm. long, silky-pubescent; stamens 3 cm. long, the sheath included; ovary terete, densely lanate.
Type locality: Stann Creek District, British Honduras. Distribution: Honduras and eastern Guatemala.
- bibliographic citation
- Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose. 1928. (ROSALES); MIMOSACEAE. North American flora. vol 23(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
