Aglaia edulis (PROSEA)
Introduction |
Aglaia edulis (Roxb.) Wallich
- Protologue: Calcutta Gard. Rep.: 26 (1840).
Synonyms
- Aglaia sulingi Blume (1825),
- Aglaia latifolia Miq. (1868),
- Aglaia acida Koord. & Valeton (1896),
- Aglaia minahassae Koord. (1898),
- Aglaia diffusa Merr. (1912),
- Aglaia pirifera Hance (1877).
Vernacular names
- Indonesia: balik-balik (Sumatra), langsatan (Java), langsat-lotung (Bali)
- Philippines: kaniue, curran kaniue (Tagalog), malasaging (Filipino)
- Thailand: khangkhao (north-eastern, eastern), kholaen (Prachuap Khiri Khan), changkru (Khmer-Chanthaburi).
- Vietnam: ngâu diu, gội ổi.
Distribution
Western India, Bhutan, southern China, Hainan, Vietnam, Cambodia, peninsular Burma (Myanmar), peninsular Thailand, the Nicobar Islands, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, Bali, Borneo, Sulawesi, Halmahera, and the Philippines.
Uses
The wood is used e.g. for boat, house and bridge building and agricultural implements, but supplies are limited. The pericarp of the fruit is used to treat diarrhoea. The aril of the seed is edible.
Observations
- A generally small to medium-sized tree up to 20 m tall, bole usually short, up to 50 cm in diameter, buttresses up to 1.5 m high, bark surface reddish-brown, yellowish-brown or greyish-green, flaking to expose the orange-brown bark beneath, inner bark pink or brown.
- Leaflets 5-9(-11), subopposite to alternate, with 5-16 pairs of secondary veins, usually with numerous pits on both surfaces, glabrous above, below with few to numerous reddish or pale brownish stellate hairs and scales or peltate scales with an irregular or fimbriate margin.
- Flowers with 5 calyx-lobes, petals 5(-7), anthers 5, style-head ovoid or depressed globose, longitudinally ridged.
- Fruit indehiscent, 3-locular.
A. edulis occurs scattered and is comparatively rare. It is found in primary evergreen forest along the seashore on sandstone or sandy loam, but also in secondary forest, from sea-level up to 1700 m altitude. The density of the wood is 775-990 kg/m3 at 15% moisture content.
Selected sources
185, 234, 303, 414, 481, 527, 544, 574. timbers
182, 247, 541, 805. medicinals
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Authors
- Sri Hayati Widodo