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Inga feuilleei DC.

Fabaceae · Ecuador

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Summary

Inga feuilleei (named after Louis Feuillée), commonly known as pacay or ice-cream bean tree, is a tree in the family Fabaceae native to Andean valleys of northwestern South America. Pacay trees, as is the case with other trees in genus Inga, produce pods that contain an edible white pulp and have nitrogen-fixing roots.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Inga feuilleei", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Inga

Inga is a genus of small tropical, tough-leaved, nitrogen-fixing trees and shrubs, subfamily Mimosoideae. Inga's leaves are pinnate, and flowers are generally white. Many of the hundreds of species are used ornamentally.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Inga", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: No georeferenced record inside the range.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
No openly licensed record to show inside the range.

This species has no GBIF key of its own. Its records are GBIF's under the key of the name Kew's World Checklist holds as this plant: 5629286 (Feuilleea feuilleei (DC.) Kuntze, 0 records). No name was matched to GBIF; the keys are read from Kew's synonymy. How.

NativeEcuador · introduced: Marquesas, Society Is., Hawaii, Bolivia, Colombia, Peru, Chile North · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“tree” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedNo georeferenced records inside the stated native range.
Other GBIF keysRecords also from GBIF's key 5629286 (Feuilleea feuilleei (DC.) Kuntze): Kew's file holds it as Feuilleea feuilleei (DC.) Kuntze (synonym under Inga feuilleei DC.); 0 records, from GBIF's search API on the day of the build.

Photographs

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Photographs: Floro Ortiz Contreras, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Ruth Gutiérrez Oliveros, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (4); Agnieszka Kwiecień, Nova, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Inga 17 in the reference

Inga affinis Fabaceae Inga densiflora Inga densiflora Fabaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Oscar MarínInga edulis Inga edulis Ice cream bean Photo: CC BY, Patrícia MeesInga inicuil Inga inicuil Fabaceae Photo: CC BY, Skjold SøndergaardInga insignis Inga insignis Fabaceae Photo: CC BY, Attila Oláh Inga lanceifolia Fabaceae Inga laurina Inga laurina Sacky sac bean Photo: CC BY, Matteo BellucciInga marginata Inga marginata Guabilla Photo: CC BY, Fabrício Mil Homens RiellaInga oerstediana Inga oerstediana Fabaceae Photo: CC BY, Trevor Van LoonInga ornata Inga ornata Fabaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Alejandro Bayer Tamayo from Armenia…Inga pilosula Inga pilosula Fabaceae Photo: CC BY, Paulo C. O. CunhaInga punctata Inga punctata Fabaceae Photo: CC BY, Alexis López Hernández all 18 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Feuilleea reticulata; Inga cumingiana; Inga reticulata; Inga pacai; Feuilleea feuilleei. (WCVP, RBG Kew)

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The record

Family
Fabaceae
Described by
DC.
Native to
Ecuador
Wild records
none in range

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
Kew's names (WCVP) kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Inga feuilleei DC. (plant_name_id 2865283), read from Kew's names file
GBIF species record gbif.species not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22this species has no GBIF key of its own; its records are read under GBIF's keys for the names Kew's file holds as this plant, never by a name matched; 0 records of GBIF's key 5629286, Feuilleea feuilleei (DC.) Kuntze (Kew's file holds it as Feuilleea feuilleei (DC.) Kuntze (synonym under Inga feuilleei DC.)): GBIF occurrence search API
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22no georeferenced record inside the range
Wikidata wikidata not taken: two items answeredasked 2026-10-22not taken: two items carry Kew's IPNI identifier 128507-2, POWO 128507-2 (Q39144632, Q257726)
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist taxon inat.taxon not asked
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence.

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