Aglaia cucullata (PROSEA)
Introduction |
Aglaia cucullata (Roxb.) Pellegrin
- Protologue: Lecomte, Fl. gén. Indo-Chine 1: 771 (1911).
Synonyms
Amoora cucullata Roxb. (1820), Amoora aherniana Merr. (1904), Aglaia tripetala Merr. (1917).
Vernacular names
- Pacific maple (En). Brunei: nyireh batu
- Malaysia: bengang (Iban, Sabah)
- Papua New Guinea: amoora (general)
- Philippines: kato, katong-tiklop (Tagalog), malakamote (Tayabas). Burma (Myanmar): myauk-le-seik
- Thailand: tasua (central), che (Karen-Mae Hong Son), daeng-nam (Phitsanulok).
Distribution
Bangladesh, Burma (Myanmar), Thailand, Vietnam, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, the Philippines and New Guinea.
Uses
A. cucullata is an important source of timber; the wood is used for e.g. house and boat building, flooring, furniture, bridges and wharves. The timber is sometimes traded separately as "Pacific maple".
Observations
A small to medium-sized, sometimes large tree up to 30(-45) m tall, bole branchless for up to 24 m, up to 100 cm in diameter, buttresses up to 3 m high, bark surface brown, pinkish-grey or pale orange-brown, inner bark pink; leaflets 5-9, subopposite, with 8-13 pairs of secondary veins, glabrous above, below rugulose and faintly pitted, with a few pale peltate scales with a darker centre and a sometimes fimbriate margin on the midrib and sometimes on the surface; flowers 3-merous, anthers 6, style-head ellipsoid, with 3 apical lobes and 6 longitudinal ridges; fruit dehiscent, (2-)3-locular. A. cucullata is scarce to rather common in riverine forest, estuaries, mangrove and nipah ( Nypa fruticans Wurmb) swamp forest, near sea-level. The density of the wood is 450-830 kg/m3at 15% moisture content. See also the table on wood properties.
Selected sources
12, 60, 145, 232, 282, 414, 474, 481, 482, 526, 527, 544, 574, 626, 731.