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Inga litoralis

species of plant

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ145624 ↗
Source-derived summary

Inga litoralis is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. It is a tree endemic to Costa Rica. It is a small or medium-sized tree which grows 4–15 (–20) metres tall and flowers in February to April and fruits in January, July, August, and September. It is native to the Pacific coast, where it grows in lowland tropical seasonal and evergreen rain forest up to 500 metres elevation.

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The public source identifies “Inga litoralis” as species of plant. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Inga, litoralis and species.

Editorial reviewA sound reference starting point where classification, measurement and the date of the underlying evidence remain visible. The current 70-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Inga, litoralis and species providing the first useful test.
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Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q145624. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Inga litoralis” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.