Inga mucuna

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 mucuna
Species Authority:	Walp. & Duchass.

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Vulnerable A1c ver 2.3

Year Published:

1998

Annotations:

Needs updating

Assessor/s:

Mitré, M.

History:

1997

–

Rare (Walter and Gillett 1998)

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	Throughout Panama and in Chocó and Antioquia in Colombia. The species is generally scarce except in the Canal area and in Darién National Park, Panama.
Countries:	Native: Colombia; Panama
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Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	Subpopulations occur in lowland semi-deciduous rainforest, rarely in secondary forest.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	Much of the unprotected forest at these low altitudes is exposed to increasing settlement, farming and agriculture.

Major Threat(s):

Much of the unprotected forest at these low altitudes is exposed to increasing settlement, farming and agriculture.

Bibliography [top]

	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. 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).

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.

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 mucuna. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 25 May 2012.
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