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Inga laurina

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Details
Ethnobotanical Use
General Uses
Synonyms
Common Names
Subtypes (subspecies, varieties, subvarieties, forms)
Germination/Propagation
Distribution
Links to other databases
Genome
Scientific Literature
Phytochemical Profile
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Details Top

Internal ID UUID643fd9158c889119823708
Scientific name Inga laurina
Authority (Sw.) Willd.
First published in Sp. Pl., ed. 4, 4: 1018 (1806)

Ethnobotanical Use Top

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General Uses Top

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Common products:
Seed oil: Inga laurina seeds contain lipids; limited references document oil expression (C梦见aβa and colleagues report approximately 9% oil content with oleic/linoleic predominance in Inga seeds; though absolute percentages for I. laurina are not consistently reported, the presence of a seed oil is noted in the genus). The oil is not a major commercial product.

Industrial and craft applications:
Gum/resin: Exudates from Inga species are described as gum-like, with similarity to acacia-like gums noted historically; for I. laurina, one source (Aymard et al., 1999, Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana) mentions a gum or latex-like substance present in this species, though chemistry and applications are not detailed.

Food and beverages (non-medicinal):
Seeds are reported as edible after roasting or boiling by some authors (e.g., Aymard et al., 1999), without specification of processing steps; no major food industry use is documented.

Colorants and tanning:
No documented use as a dye or tannin source.

Wood and fiber:
No documented timber or fiber uses.

Fragrance and cosmetics:
No documented use.

Properties relevant to use:
Edibility depends on thorough cooking to inactivate anti-nutritional factors commonly present in Leguminosae; seed lipid profile shows typical oleic/linoleic fatty acids seen in Inga. Gum exudates from Inga are reportedly similar to polysaccharide-rich plant gums, but specific viscosity or functional properties for I. laurina are not quantified in sources.

Standards and regulation:
No specific standards or regulatory frameworks for I. laurina products are documented.

Sustainability and sourcing:
No major commercial cultivation or harvesting programs reported; trees occur in secondary and gallery forests of northern South America. No conservation status specified in major horticultural references (no listing in CITES; IUCN status not reported).

Synonyms Top

Scientific name Authority First published in
Mimosa sinemariensis Aubl. Hist. Pl. Guiane: 945 (1775)
Feuilleea fagifolia (L.) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl.1: 187 (1891)
Mimosa fagifolia L. Sp. Pl.: 516 (1753)
Feuilleea laurina (Sw.) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl.1: 188 (1891)
Mimosa laurina Sw. Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ.: 85 (1788)
Inga sinemariensis (Aubl.) G.Don Gen. Hist.2: 388 (1832)
Inga verrucosa C.Presl Abh. Königl. Böhm. Ges. Wiss., ser. 5, 3: 496 (1845)
Inga fagifolia var. belemnensis Ducke Arch. Jard. Bot. Rio de Janeiro3: 54 (1922)
Inga fagifolia var. pedicellaris Benth. C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Bras.15(2): 472 (1876)
Inga fagifolia (L.) Willd. ex Benth. Trans. Linn. Soc. London 30: 607 (1875)
Inga fagifolia f. genuina Hassl. Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 16: 155 (1919)
Inga fagifolia var. typica Hassl. Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 16: 154 (1919)
Mimosa coruscans Sieber ex C.Presl Abh. Königl. Böhm. Ges. Wiss. , ser. 5, 3: 496 (1845)

Common names Top

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Language Common/alternative name
English sacky sac bean
English mimosa tetraphylla
German mimosa tetraphylla
Igbo inga tetraphylla
Igbo mimosa tetraphylla
Italian mimosa tetraphylla
Dutch mimosa tetraphylla
Portuguese mimosa tetraphylla
Chinese 月桂印加豆

Subspecies (abbr. subsp./ssp.) Top

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Varieties (abbr. var.) Top

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Subvarieties (abbr. subvar.) Top

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Distribution (via POWO/KEW) Top

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  • Northern America
    • Mexico
      • Mexico Gulf
      • Mexico Northwest
      • Mexico Southeast
      • Mexico Southwest
  • Southern America
    • Brazil
      • Brazil North
      • Brazil Northeast
      • Brazil South
      • Brazil Southeast
      • Brazil West-central
    • Caribbean
      • Cuba
      • Dominican Republic
      • Haiti
      • Leeward Islands
      • Puerto Rico
      • Trinidad-Tobago
      • Windward Islands
    • Central America
      • Belize
      • Costa Rica
      • El Salvador
      • Guatemala
      • Honduras
      • Nicaragua
      • Panamá
    • Northern South America
      • French Guiana
      • Guyana
      • Suriname
      • Venezuela
    • Southern South America
      • Argentina Northeast
      • Paraguay
    • Western South America
      • Bolivia
      • Colombia
      • Ecuador
      • Peru

Links to other databases Top

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000183520
USDA Plants INLA
Tropicos 13021281
INPN 629908
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1199545-2
The Plant List ild-29584
Open Tree Of Life 626197
NCBI Taxonomy 487684
IUCN Red List 136789974
IPNI 1199545-2
iNaturalist 202489
GBIF 5358039
Freebase /m/012vxzrg
EOL 642927
USDA GRIN 315070
Wikipedia Inga_laurina

Genomes (via NCBI) Top

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Accession Assembly
Name Level Submitter Released Coverage Size
GCA_963855925.1 drIngLaur1.1 Chromosome WELLCOME SANGER INSTITUTE 2023-12-15 30 857.89 Mb

Scientific Literature Top

Below are displayed the latest 15 articles published in PMC (PubMed Central®) and other sources (DOI number only)!
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Title Authors Publication Released IDs
The genome sequence of Inga laurina (Sw.) Willd. Schley RJ, Pennington RT, Twyford AD, Dexter KG, Kidner C, Michael TP Wellcome Open Res 07-Oct-2024
PMCID:PMC11558168
doi:10.12688/wellcomeopenres.23057.1
PMID:39540104
Pest categorisation of Diaprepes abbreviatus Bragard C, Baptista P, Chatzivassiliou E, Di Serio F, Gonthier P, Jaques Miret JA, Justesen AF, Magnusson CS, Milonas P, Navas‐Cortes JA, Parnell S, Potting R, Reignault PL, Stefani E, Thulke H, Van der Werf W, Vicent Civera A, Yuen J, Zappalà L, Grégoire J, Malumphy C, Kertesz V, Maiorano A, MacLeod A EFSA J 15-Nov-2023
PMCID:PMC10648563
doi:10.2903/j.efsa.2023.8318
PMID:38027434
Patterns of use of wild food plants by Brazilian local communities: systematic review and meta-analysis Gomes LC, Medeiros PM, Prata AP J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 25-Oct-2023
PMCID:PMC10601232
doi:10.1186/s13002-023-00619-y
PMID:37880767
Tropical Trees Will Need to Acclimate to Rising Temperatures—But Can They? Feeley KJ, Bernal-Escobar M, Fortier R, Kullberg AT Plants (Basel) 31-Aug-2023
PMCID:PMC10490527
doi:10.3390/plants12173142
PMID:37687387
Differences in Physiological Responses of Two Tomato Genotypes to Combined Waterlogging and Cadmium Stresses Zhou R, Niu L, Yin J, Jiang F, Wang Y, Zhao T, Wu Z, Zhu W Antioxidants (Basel) 02-Jun-2023
PMCID:PMC10295130
doi:10.3390/antiox12061205
PMID:37371935
Prospecting Plant Extracts and Bioactive Molecules with Antimicrobial Activity in Brazilian Biomes: A Review de Queiroz JC, Leite JR, Vasconcelos AG Antibiotics (Basel) 21-Feb-2023
PMCID:PMC10044579
doi:10.3390/antibiotics12030427
PMID:36978294
Height and crown allometries and their relationship with functional traits: An example from a subtropical wet forest Yang J, Swenson NG Ecol Evol 14-Feb-2023
PMCID:PMC9929110
doi:10.1002/ece3.9804
PMID:36818529
Demographic trade-offs and functional shifts in a hurricane-impacted tropical forest Umaña MN, Needham J, Forero-Montaña J, Nytch CJ, Swenson NG, Thompson J, Uriarte M, Zimmerman JK Ann Bot 25-Jan-2023
PMCID:PMC10457028
doi:10.1093/aob/mcad004
PMID:36702550
Tri‐trophic interactions among Fopius arisanus, Tephritid species and host plants suggest apparent competition Moquet L, Jobart B, Fontaine R, Delatte H Ecol Evol 11-Jan-2023
PMCID:PMC9834009
doi:10.1002/ece3.9742
PMID:36644698
Restoration success in former Amazonian mines is driven by soil amendment and forest proximity König LA, Medina-Vega JA, Longo RM, Zuidema PA, Jakovac CC Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 14-Nov-2022
PMCID:PMC9661946
doi:10.1098/rstb.2021.0086
PMID:36373924
Relationships between soil properties and species establishment in the restoration of mined soils in the Cerrado biome Vieira DA, Martins TO, Miranda Matias RA, Fernandes Silva PH, Valadão MB, Barbosa PV, Gatto A, Rodrigues Pinto JR, Bussinguer AP, Ribeiro FP PLoS One 04-Nov-2022
PMCID:PMC9635749
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0277193
PMID:36331966
Metabolic Profiling of Inga Species with Antitumor Activity Lima NM, Preet G, Marqui SR, Falcoski TD, Navegante G, Soares CP, Andrade TD, La Porta FA, Rakotondraie HL, Jaspars M, Silva DH Molecules 22-Jul-2022
PMCID:PMC9331837
doi:10.3390/molecules27154695
PMID:35897874
Plant Kunitz Inhibitors and Their Interaction with Proteases: Current and Potential Pharmacological Targets Bonturi CR, Silva Teixeira AB, Rocha VM, Valente PF, Oliveira JR, Filho CM, Fátima Correia Batista I, Oliva ML Int J Mol Sci 25-Apr-2022
PMCID:PMC9100506
doi:10.3390/ijms23094742
PMID:35563133
Toxic Potential of Cerrado Plants on Different Organisms Rocha JD, Carneiro FM, Fernandes AS, Morais JM, Borges LL, Chen-Chen L, de Almeida LM, Bailão EF Int J Mol Sci 22-Mar-2022
PMCID:PMC8998518
doi:10.3390/ijms23073413
PMID:35408775
The Kunitz chymotrypsin inhibitor from Erythrina velutina seeds displays activity against HeLa cells through arrest in cell cycle Lucena SV, Rufino FP, de Dantas Moura GE, Rabêlo LM, Monteiro NK, Ferreira AT, Perales JE, Uchôa AF, Justo GZ, de Oliveira CF, Migliolo L, Nader HB, Santos EA, Oliveira AS 3 Biotech 15-Dec-2021
PMCID:PMC8674401
doi:10.1007/s13205-021-03084-0
PMID:34926123

Phytochemical Profile Top

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Name PubChem ID Canonical SMILES MW Found in Proof
> Lignans, neolignans and related compounds / Dibenzylbutane lignans
(2R)-2-amino-3-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-4-oxo-2,3-bis(3,4,5-trihydroxybenzoyl)-4-(3,4,5-trihydroxyphenyl)butanoic acid 163187041 Click to see 637.50 unknown https://doi.org/10.1021/NP060491M
> Organic acids and derivatives / Carboxylic acids and derivatives / Amino acids, peptides, and analogues / Alpha amino acids and derivatives / Tyrosine and derivatives
(2S)-2-[bis(3,4,5-trihydroxybenzoyl)amino]-3-(4-hydroxyphenyl)propanoic acid 163190456 Click to see 485.40 unknown https://doi.org/10.1021/NP060491M
(2S)-3-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-2-[(3,4,5-trihydroxybenzoyl)amino]propanoic acid 117628061 Click to see 333.29 unknown https://doi.org/10.1021/NP060491M
DL-Tyrosine 1153 Click to see C1=CC(=CC=C1CC(C(=O)O)N)O 181.19 unknown https://doi.org/10.1021/NP060491M
L-Tyrosine 6057 Click to see 181.19 unknown https://doi.org/10.1021/NP060491M
> Phenylpropanoids and polyketides / Depsides and depsidones
(2S)-2-amino-3-[4-[3,4-dihydroxy-5-(3,4,5-trihydroxybenzoyl)oxybenzoyl]oxyphenyl]propanoic acid 16104927 Click to see C1=CC(=CC=C1CC(C(=O)O)N)OC(=O)C2=CC(=C(C(=C2)OC(=O)C3=CC(=C(C(=C3)O)O)O)O)O 485.40 unknown https://doi.org/10.1021/NP060491M
Tyrosine gallate 16104925 Click to see 333.29 unknown https://doi.org/10.1021/NP060491M
> Phenylpropanoids and polyketides / Flavonoids / Flavonoid glycosides / Flavonoid O-glycosides / Flavonoid-3-O-glycosides
((2S,3R,4R,5R,6S)-2-(5,7-dihydroxy-4-oxo-2-(3,4,5-trihydroxyphenyl)chromen-3-yl)oxy-4,5-dihydroxy-6-methyloxan-3-yl) 3,4,5-trihydroxybenzoate 5316590 Click to see 616.50 unknown https://doi.org/10.1021/NP060491M
[2-[5,7-Dihydroxy-4-oxo-2-(3,4,5-trihydroxyphenyl)chromen-3-yl]oxy-4,5-dihydroxy-6-methyloxan-3-yl] 3,4,5-trihydroxybenzoate 59386481 Click to see CC1C(C(C(C(O1)OC2=C(OC3=CC(=CC(=C3C2=O)O)O)C4=CC(=C(C(=C4)O)O)O)OC(=O)C5=CC(=C(C(=C5)O)O)O)O)O 616.50 unknown https://doi.org/10.1021/NP060491M

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