Aglaia perviridis (PROSEA)
Introduction |
Aglaia perviridis Hiern
- Protologue: Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 556 (1875).
Synonyms
Aglaia maiae Bourd. (1899), Aglaia canarensis Gamble (1915), Aglaia kingiana Ridley (1920).
Vernacular names
- Malaysia: tengkorak lang, tenkohalang (Peninsular)
- Vietnam: gội xanh.
Distribution
South-western India, Bhutan, Bangladesh, the Andaman Islands, southern China, northern Vietnam, Thailand and Peninsular Malaysia.
Uses
The wood is used, e.g. for general construction, ship and boat planking, and agricultural tools. The fruit is reported to be edible. A. perviridis is also used as a shade and wayside tree.
Observations
A small to medium-sized tree up to 25 m tall, bole up to 50 cm in diameter; leaflets 11-13, subopposite, with 12-18 pairs of secondary veins, usually pitted and sometimes rugulose on both surfaces, generally glabrous above, below with few small reddish-brown peltate scales having a dark centre and an irregular fimbriate margin, more densely scaly on the midrib; flowers 5-merous, anthers 5, style-head ovoid; fruit indehiscent, 1-locular. A. perviridis is common, occurring scattered in primary and secondary evergreen forest on limestone, at 100-1500 m altitude. Wood samples of seasoned timber from India have a density of 895-1120 kg/m3.
Selected sources
78, 86, 116, 185, 481, 494.