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Inga laurina (Sw.) Willd.

Sacky sac bean; Red Wood

Fabaceae · Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northwest +31

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Habitat figures
Cold floor (1 night in 100)
9.4°C
Record low 2.8 °C in 44 years, at a typical spot in the range NASA POWER
Warmest month, mean daily high
28°C
Jan, Feb, Mar, Oct, Nov and Dec at the habitat CHELSA
Rain a year (median across the range)
1,595mm
12 months of 25 mm or more in the median year CHELSA
Open-sky light
24–37DLI
Lowest to highest month (DLI) CHELSA
The year in your months, northern hemisphere
  1. Jan
  2. Feb
  3. Mar
  4. Apr
  5. May
  6. Jun
  7. Jul
  8. Aug
  9. Sep
  10. Oct
  11. Nov
  12. Dec
Wet summers: the rain comes April to September (October to March at the habitat), read as a summer growing season. rain rule, CHELSA
Northern hemisphere unless you set your site. The chart is in the habitat's months.

Summary

Inga laurina is a species of plant in the family Fabaceae. It native to an area from Mexico south to Argentina, including in the Caribbean. The species is present throughout most of Brazil, where it is called ingá-mirim (small ice-cream-bean) due to the relatively small pods.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Inga laurina", 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

Seasons

The rain rule reads a summer growing season: 70% of the median year's rain (1,078 mm of 1,529 mm) falls in October to March, warmer than the year (wet-season mean 24.3 °C against a yearly mean of 22.8 °C). Months are the habitat's, southern hemisphere; shifted six months for a northern-hemisphere collection: April to September.

Rain

1,529 mm in the median year at the habitat, 1,078 mm of it October to March. Wettest month January at 224 mm, driest month August at 42 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 1,248 mm to 2,796 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 1,595 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 1,529 mm here is the median year's, the twelve monthly medians added, which the rain rule reads. Habitat calendar, southern hemisphere; median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA.

Light

Open sky over the habitat: 24 to 37 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 17, the highest 90th-percentile month 41).

Warmth and air
Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range is 9.4 °C, the absolute minimum 2.8 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 36.4 °C. Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 15.1 °C in July (across the grid cells of the range 11.3 °C to 22.0 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 28.4 °C in February (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: 9.4 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range (NASA POWER).

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 59 to 64% across the year (monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Seasons. Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the grid cells of the range: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve moves 4 °C or more and the habitat lies 10° or more from the equator. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain. CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the grid cells of the range. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light. CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Temperature. NASA POWER daily minima and maxima over 44 years at a typical spot in the range, lapse-corrected +9 m to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range. The cold floor is the 1st-percentile night named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity. CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the grid cells of the range.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat months, southern hemisphere

Habitat climate of Inga laurina through the yearWarmest months January, February, March, October, November and December, mean daily high 28 °C; coldest month July, mean nightly low 15.1 °C; 1,529 mm of rain in the median year (the twelve monthly medians added). Medians across the range, from CHELSA; the extremes at the edge from NASA POWER. Habitat months, southern hemisphere.0°10°20°30°40°36.4° 99th-percentile day, NASA POWER2.8° lowest night in 44 years, NASA POWER°C · day and nightcold quarter0100200300400mm rainDLI 24–37RH 59–64%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain medians and 10th–90th percentile across 186 habitat cells, CHELSA cold quarter: the three months around the coldest month's mean nightly low extremes over 44 years at a typical spot in the range, from NASA POWER, marked at the edge, in no month DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C28 / 26–3128 / 26–3028 / 26–3027 / 24–2925 / 22–2925 / 20–2924 / 20–2926 / 22–3027 / 22–3128 / 24–3128 / 25–3028 / 25–30
Night °C21 / 18–2421 / 18–2421 / 18–2419 / 16–2317 / 14–2315 / 12–2215 / 11–2216 / 12–2218 / 14–2319 / 16–2320 / 17–2321 / 18–24
Rain mm224 / 71–322179 / 93–261171 / 119–290129 / 71–31988 / 33–35958 / 9–31050 / 7–28342 / 16–27184 / 42–254136 / 86–273168 / 116–263200 / 90–315
DLI36 / 31–4137 / 32–4034 / 30–3630 / 25–3326 / 20–3124 / 17–3125 / 19–3330 / 24–3633 / 27–3936 / 31–3937 / 31–4036 / 30–41
RH %64 / 59–6864 / 60–6864 / 60–6963 / 60–6963 / 57–6962 / 54–6961 / 51–6859 / 49–6859 / 50–6761 / 57–6962 / 58–7064 / 60–69

Records on both sides of the equator: the 132 cells at least 10° north of it have seasons six months apart and are left out, not combined into a year no place has. These figures are across the 186 cells that remain: the 139 at least 10° south and the 47 within 10° of the equator, which stay in either way.

How this section is made
Each figure is the median across the 186 grid cells on land that hold in-range records (212 records in those cells; 2 more cells hold records but no land by the elevation layer, so those records sit at sea and the cells are left out), with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. A dash is a month one or more of those cells has no figure for in the grid (a variable CHELSA does not carry there), so no median is taken rather than one over fewer cells. Extremes and elevation were read at a typical spot in the range, cell 2126:2620 (-16.325, -48.975). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum 2.8 °C, 1st-percentile night 9.4 °C, 99th-percentile day 36.4 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Across the range: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 186 distinct grid cells holding 212 of the 379 in-range records (2 further cells with records at sea, by the elevation layer, left out) on the southern side of the equator (132 cells poleward of 10° north, 139 poleward of 10° south: the two sides' seasons are not combined, and cells within 10° of the equator stay in); extremes and elevation at the typical cell 2126:2620 (its coldest month's mean nightly low nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell -16.50_-48.750, lapse-corrected +9 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 980 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across the cells of the in-range records placed well enough to read one, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeMexico Gulf, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southwest, Mexico Southeast, Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Leeward Is. AB Ant, Puerto Rico, Trinidad-Tobago, Windward Is., French Guiana, Guyana, Surinam, Venezuela, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil West-Central, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Brazil North, Brazil South, Argentina Northeast, Paraguay · introduced: Jawa, New Caledonia · 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).
Map marker-12.833, -39.083 · in the densest population, 410 records (30% of those in range)
Kew's description“tree” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 1367 georeferenced records inside the native range; the climate across the range on the 212 of them in the land cells it reads, of 379 placed to within 10 km; the map shows only the 1195 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 6 km away. 18 records outside the WCVP native range not used. 988 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 4° block of the 1367 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Matteo Bellucci, some rights reserved (CC BY) (3); (c) Kurt Miller, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) (2); author not stated, no rights reserved · CC0.

Similar habitat climate The 6 nearest by mean daily high, mean nightly low and rain, month by month. How.

Alternanthera brasiliana Alternanthera brasiliana Brazilian joyweed Photo: CC BY, Richard LittauerGallesia integrifolia Gallesia integrifolia Phytolaccaceae Photo: CC BY, Fabrício Mil Homens RiellaMiconia albicans Miconia albicans Melastomataceae Photo: CC BY, avocatDioscorea dodecaneura Dioscorea dodecaneura Ornamental yam Photo: CC BY, Paulo MascarettiTabebuia roseoalba Tabebuia roseoalba White Ipê Photo: CC BY, Renato BandeiraCestrum laevigatum Cestrum laevigatum Inkberry Bush Photo: CC0, author not stated

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 feuilleei Inga feuilleei Fabaceae Photo: CC BY, Floro Ortiz ContrerasInga inicuil Inga inicuil Fabaceae Photo: CC BY, Skjold SøndergaardInga insignis Inga insignis Fabaceae Photo: CC BY, Attila Oláh Inga lanceifolia Fabaceae Inga 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 fagifolia; Feuilleea laurina; Inga fagifolia; Inga fagifolia f. genuina; Inga fagifolia var. belemnensis and 8 more. (GBIF Backbone)

Under another author Inga marginata Benth. is an older name of this species, not Inga marginata, a species of the reference. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Fabaceae
Described by
(Sw.) Willd.
Native to
Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southwest +30
Wild records
1367 in range · 1195 open

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
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 22 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (17 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 1 at a herbarium, 4 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate answeredasked 2026-10-22
Daily extremes (NASA POWER) climate.extremes answeredasked 2026-10-22NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell -16.50_-48.750, lapse-corrected +9 m at 6.5 °C/km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media 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. Records came from 183 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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