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Inga pilosula (Rich.) J.F.Macbr.

Fabaceae · Trinidad-Tobago, French Guiana +8

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Habitat figures
Cold floor (1 night in 100)
20.8°C
Record low 18.3 °C in 44 years, at a typical spot in the range NASA POWER
Warmest month, mean daily high
30°C
Sep, Oct and Nov at the habitat CHELSA
Rain a year (median across the range)
2,903mm
12 months of 25 mm or more in the median year CHELSA
Open-sky light
27–35DLI
Lowest to highest month (DLI) CHELSA
The year in the habitat's months, not shifted
  1. Jan
  2. Feb
  3. Mar
  4. Apr
  5. May
  6. Jun
  7. Jul
  8. Aug
  9. Sep
  10. Oct
  11. Nov
  12. Dec
A sharp rainy season, December to June (the habitat's months, not shifted), in a year of even temperature. rain rule, CHELSA
Not shifted: the shift rule does not apply to this habitat. The chart is in the habitat's months.

Summary

Inga pilosula is a species of plant in the family Fabaceae. It is found in Brazil, the Caribbean, Bolivia and Peru.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Inga pilosula", 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 sharp season: 70% of the median year's rain (2,000 mm of 2,819 mm) falls in December to June. The temperature curve is flat, 1.3 °C between the warmest and coldest month, so the growing-season rule does not infer a growing season from it. Months are the habitat's, southern hemisphere. The habitat lies within 10° of the equator, where the shift rule does not apply, so they are not shifted for a collection elsewhere.

Rain

2,819 mm in the median year at the habitat, 2,000 mm of it December to June. Wettest month May at 333 mm, driest month September at 117 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 1,781 mm to 3,424 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 2,903 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 2,819 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: 27 to 35 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 23, the highest 90th-percentile month 39).

Warmth and air
Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range is 20.8 °C, the absolute minimum 18.3 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 34.5 °C. Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 22.1 °C in July (across the grid cells of the range 18.3 °C to 23.4 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 30.1 °C in October (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: 20.8 °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: 65 to 71% 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 -54 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 pilosula through the yearWarmest months September, October and November, mean daily high 30 °C; coldest month July, mean nightly low 22.1 °C; 2,819 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.15°20°25°30°35°40°34.5° 99th-percentile day, NASA POWER18.3° lowest night in 44 years, NASA POWER°C · day and nightcold quarter0100200300400500600mm rainDLI 27–35RH 65–71%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain medians and 10th–90th percentile across 35 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 °C29 / 28–3029 / 28–3029 / 28–3029 / 28–3028 / 27–2928 / 27–2928 / 27–3029 / 28–3130 / 29–3230 / 29–3230 / 28–3029 / 28–30
Night °C23 / 21–2423 / 21–2423 / 22–2423 / 21–2423 / 20–2422 / 19–2322 / 18–2322 / 19–2423 / 20–2423 / 21–2523 / 21–2423 / 21–24
Rain mm273 / 107–395254 / 108–349294 / 121–350318 / 168–420333 / 74–517275 / 28–432213 / 16–391144 / 32–300117 / 44–264155 / 53–252190 / 85–294253 / 122–359
DLI30 / 28–3430 / 28–3531 / 28–3528 / 26–3227 / 24–3027 / 23–2930 / 25–3334 / 29–3635 / 32–3935 / 32–3932 / 30–3630 / 28–32
RH %68 / 64–7167 / 63–7168 / 63–7270 / 64–7370 / 63–7371 / 60–7468 / 57–7366 / 56–7265 / 57–7166 / 60–7168 / 62–7168 / 64–71
How this section is made
Each figure is the median across the 35 grid cells holding the 40 in-range records, 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 1736:2289 (3.175, -65.525). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum 18.3 °C, 1st-percentile night 20.8 °C, 99th-percentile day 34.5 °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 35 distinct grid cells holding 40 of the 40 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 1736:2289 (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 3.00_-65.625, lapse-corrected -54 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 120 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.
NativeTrinidad-Tobago, French Guiana, Guyana, Surinam, Venezuela, Bolivia, Colombia, Peru, Brazil West-Central, Brazil 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).
Map marker-3.748, -73.247 · in the densest population, 128 records (35% 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 365 georeferenced records inside the native range; the climate across the range on the 40 of them placed to within 10 km; the map shows only the 311 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 286 km away. 11 records outside the WCVP native range not used. 325 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 365 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: Paulo C. O. Cunha, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF (6).

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

Urospatha sagittifolia Urospatha sagittifolia Araceae Photo: CC BY-SA, KATELL UGUENAganisia cyanea Aganisia cyanea Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Artur AlvesDrosera cayennensis Drosera cayennensis Droseraceae Photo: CC BY, Juan Manuel Cardona GrandaOmphalea diandra Omphalea diandra Euphorbiaceae Photo: CC BY, Guillaume DelaitreIschnosiphon leucophaeus Ischnosiphon leucophaeus Marantaceae Photo: CC BY, Marcio Santos FerreiraOctomeria scirpoidea Octomeria scirpoidea Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Diogo Luiz

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 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 punctata Inga punctata Fabaceae Photo: CC BY, Alexis López Hernández all 18 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Feuilleea pilosula; Feuilleea quassiaefolia; Feuilleea quassiifolia; Feuilleea setifera; Inga macrophylla and 14 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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

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The record

Family
Fabaceae
Described by
(Rich.) J.F.Macbr.
Native to
Trinidad-Tobago, French Guiana, Guyana +7
Wild records
365 in range · 311 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; 1 record within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (1 at a botanic garden or arboretum; 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 3.00_-65.625, lapse-corrected -54 m at 6.5 °C/km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
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 answeredasked 2026-10-22
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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 61 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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