Inga allenii

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

Bibliography

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
PLANTAE	TRACHEOPHYTA	MAGNOLIOPSIDA	FABALES	LEGUMINOSAE

Scientific Name:	Inga allenii
Species Authority:	J. León

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:	Vulnerable A2c ver 2.3
Year Assessed:	1998
Annotations:	Needs updating
Assessor/s:	Mitré, M.

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	A few collections are known from Coclé and some more doubtful ones from Darién. In Costa Rica the species is fairly common in the south-east and there are small subpopulations in La Selva and Limón. Recently the species has been recorded in Valle del Cauca, Colombia.
Countries:	Native: Colombia; Costa Rica; Panama

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Systems:	Terrestrial

Systems:

Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	In Panama, a large number of the original species' localities have been converted into fields, especially banana plantations, ranches and farms.

Major Threat(s):

In Panama, a large number of the original species' localities have been converted into fields, especially banana plantations, ranches and farms.

Bibliography [top]

	D’Arcy, W.G. 1987. Flora of Panama: checklist and index. Monographs in Systematic Botany 17: 1-1000. Mitre, M.E. 1997. Completed data collection forms for trees of Panama. Oldfield, S., Lusty, C. and MacKinven, A. (compilers). 1998. The World List of Threatened Trees. World Conservation Press, Cambridge, UK. Pennington, T.D. 1997. The genus Inga. The Royal Botanic Garden, Kew. The Nature Conservancy. 1996. Natural Heritage Central Database. (Status and distribution data on Latin American plants, developed in collaboration with Latin American Conservation Data Centers and Missouri Botanical Garden).

D’Arcy, W.G. 1987. Flora of Panama: checklist and index. Monographs in Systematic Botany 17: 1-1000.

Mitre, M.E. 1997. Completed data collection forms for trees of Panama.

Oldfield, S., Lusty, C. and MacKinven, A. (compilers). 1998. The World List of Threatened Trees. World Conservation Press, Cambridge, UK.

Pennington, T.D. 1997. The genus Inga. The Royal Botanic Garden, Kew.

The Nature Conservancy. 1996. Natural Heritage Central Database. (Status and distribution data on Latin American plants, developed in collaboration with Latin American Conservation Data Centers and Missouri Botanical Garden).

Citation:	Mitré, M. 1998. Inga allenii. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 10 February 2012.
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