Aglaia leptantha (PROSEA)
Introduction |
Aglaia leptantha Miq.
- Protologue: Ann. Mus. Bot. Ludg.-Bat. 4: 51 (1868).
Synonyms
Aglaia glabriflora Hiern (1875), Aglaia laevigata Merr. (1906), Aglaia gamopetala Merr. (1929).
Vernacular names
- Indonesia: bomberang, langadai delok (Sumatra), kayu lilin (Kalimantan)
- Malaysia: pasak beras-beras (Peninsular), lantupak (Dusun, Sabah), segera (Iban, Sarawak)
- Philippines: gisihan, kagatongan (Tagalog), agai (Negros).
Distribution
Peninsular Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Sumatra, Java, Flores, Borneo and the Philippines.
Uses
The wood is used e.g. for furniture, house and fence posts, and house building. The aril of the seed is edible but sour.
Observations
A medium-sized, occasionally fairly large tree up to 30(-40) m tall, bole branchless for up to 16 m, up to 60 cm in diameter, fluted at base or with small buttresses up to 30 cm high, bark surface pale grey or greenish-brown to reddish-brown with greyish-green patches, inner bark green, pale orange-brown or reddish-brown; leaflets 7-11(-12), alternate, with 4-14 pairs of secondary veins, smooth or occasionally rugulose and glabrous or with few scales on the veins above, the midrib and veins below with few to numerous reddish-brown, pale brown or grey peltate scales with fimbriate margin and a darker centre, the intervenal parts almost glabrous; flowers 5-merous, anthers 5, style-head ovoid, with 2 small apical lobes; fruit indehiscent, 1-2-locular. A. leptantha is locally common in primary forest, sometimes in kerangas or seasonal swamp, ridge or lower montane forest, on sandy or clayey soils or limestone, up to 1700 m altitude. The density of the wood is about 915 kg/m3at 15% moisture content.
Selected sources
78, 414, 481, 527, 544, 705.