Inga oerstedianaBenth.

WFO wfo-0001051200 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 6 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 6 times, 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 oerstediana, photographed by Trevor Van Loon
fig. a Trevor Van Loon, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-01-05 / obs. 178932906
Inga oerstediana, photographed by Jake Rehage
fig. b Jake Rehage, CC0 1.0 / obs. 94866037
Inga oerstediana, photographed by Lena Struwe
fig. c Lena Struwe, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 14359520
Inga oerstediana, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. d Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 30109659
Inga oerstediana, photographed by Jake Rehage
fig. e Jake Rehage, CC0 1.0 / obs. 94866070
Inga oerstediana, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. f Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 8535685
Inga oerstediana, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. g Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 6470192
Inga oerstediana, photographed by Trevor Van Loon
fig. h Trevor Van Loon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 178932896

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Native range 18 botanical countries

Regions where Inga oerstediana is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Belize, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela Mexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestBelizeBoliviaColombiaCosta RicaEcuadorEl SalvadorGuatemalaHondurasNicaraguaPanamáPeruTrinidad-TobagoVenezuela
Native distribution of Inga oerstediana, 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
Belize BLZ SOUTHERN AMERICA
Bolivia BOL
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Ecuador ECU
El Salvador ELS
Guatemala GUA
Honduras HON
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Peru PER
Trinidad-Tobago TRT
Venezuela VEN
Mexico Central MXC NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
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 17 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 endlicheri Kuntze
  • Feuilleea oerstediana (Benth.) Kuntze
  • Inga chartana Britton & Killip
  • Inga chiriquensis Standl.
  • Inga clavigera Moritz ex Benth.
  • Inga cobanensis Pittier
  • Inga culagana Britton & Killip
  • Inga edulis var. grenadensis Urb.
  • Inga edulis var. minutula Schery
  • Inga endlicheri (Kuntze) J.F.Macbr.
  • Inga eriorhachis Harms
  • Inga fasciculata Poepp.
  • Inga meridensis Pittier
  • Inga minutula (Schery) T.S.Elias
  • Inga pamplonae Britton & Killip
  • Inga pisana G.Don
  • Inga tuerckheimii Pittier

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.