Abarema cochleata (Willd.) Barneby & J.W.Grimes var. cochleata

  • Authors

    Rupert C. Barneby

  • Authority

    Barneby, Rupert C. & Grimes, James W. 1996. Silk tree, guanacaste, monkey's earring: a generic system for the synandrous Mimosaceae of the Americas. Part I. Abarema, Albizia, and allies. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 74: 1-292.

  • Family

    Mimosaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Abarema cochleata (Willd.) Barneby & J.W.Grimes var. cochleata

  • Type

    "Habitat in provincia Para Brasiliae, [Friedrich W. Sieber s.n., commun.] com. de Hoffmannsegg." - Holotypus, B-WILLD 19006, seen in Microform 86: fiche 1380!

  • Synonyms

    Mimosa cochleata (Willd.) Poir., Pithecellobium cochleatum (Willd.) Mart.

  • Description

    Variety Description - As described for the species, modified by key to varieties. [Key] "Valves of ripe pod leathery, <2 mm thick in section, differentiated into glabrous, coarsely cross-venulose and reticulate exocarp, thin pitchlike mesocarp, and pallid crustaceous endocarp ±0.2-0.3 mm thick, low convex over each seed;"

    Distribution and Ecology - In virgin forest and vigorously surviving in capoeira, in tree-islands and along margin of savannas, occasional in campinarana or in swampy palm- groves, almost exclusively on terra firme below 200 m, common and locally abundant in lower Amazonian Brazil from the lower Ríos Trombetas and Tapajóz downstream to the delta and thence E along the coastal and inland lowlands to central Maranhão. - Map 23. - Fl. almost throughout the year, most profusely VIII-I. [Key] "lower Amazonian Brazil in Pará and Maranhão..........21a. var. cochleata"

    Local Names and Uses - Inga de lagarta, inga de rosea; ingarana (applied also to Zygia and Macrosamanea spp.).

  • Common Names

    Inga de lagarta, inga de rosea, ingarana

  • Distribution

    Amazonas Brazil South America| Pará Brazil South America| Maranhão Brazil South America|