Inga alba(Sw.) Willd.

WFO wfo-0000173653 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Inga alba, photographed by Eduardo Chacón Madrigal
fig. a Eduardo Chacón Madrigal, CC BY 4.0 / 2013-07-23 / obs. 90857990
Inga alba, photographed by Eduardo Chacón Madrigal
fig. b Eduardo Chacón Madrigal, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 90858079
Inga alba, photographed by Eduardo Chacón Madrigal
fig. c Eduardo Chacón Madrigal, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 90858191

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
2063190
Filed as
Inga alba (Sw.) Willd.
Det. by
F. Bonadeu da Silva 2014-01-01
Collected
J. Revilla 1983-10-03
Origin
BR
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 18 botanical countries

Regions where Inga alba is native: Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela Mexico GulfMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestBoliviaBrazil NorthBrazil NortheastBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralColombiaCosta RicaEcuadorFrench GuianaGuyanaNicaraguaPanamáPeruSurinameVenezuela
Native distribution of Inga alba, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Bolivia BOL SOUTHERN AMERICA
Brazil North BZN
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Ecuador ECU
French Guiana FRG
Guyana GUY
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Peru PER
Suriname SUR
Venezuela VEN
Mexico Gulf MXG NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 13 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Feuilleea aggregata (G.Don) Kuntze
  • Feuilleea alba (Sw.) Kuntze
  • Inga aggregata G.Don
  • Inga altissima Ducke
  • Inga carachensis Pittier
  • Inga fraxinea Willd.
  • Inga parviflora Sagot ex Benth.
  • Inga sapida Benth. & Hook.
  • Inga spruceana Benth.
  • Inga thyrsoidea Desv.
  • Mimosa alba Sw.
  • Mimosa fraxinea Poir.
  • Mimosa thyrsoidea Poir.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.