Aglaia agglomerata (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Aglaia agglomerata Merr. & Perry

Protologue: Journ. Arn. Arb. 21: 322 (1940).

Synonyms

Aglaia doctersiana Harms (1942), Aglaia leeuwenii Harms (1942).

Distribution

New Guinea.

Uses

The wood is thought to be used.

Observations

A small to medium-sized tree up to 32 m tall, bole branchless for up to 19 m, up to 90 cm in diameter, buttresses up to 2.5 m high, bark surface pale grey, greyish-brown or brown, inner bark yellow or reddish-yellow; leaflets (7-)9-13, opposite or subopposite, with 11-19 pairs of secondary veins, upper surface with numerous pits, sometimes rugulose, lower surface and midrib above with numerous small, very dark reddish-brown peltate scales with a paler and irregular or fimbriate margin; flowers 5-merous, anthers 5, style-head ovoid, longitudinally ridged; fruit indehiscent, 2-locular. A. agglomerata occurs scattered in primary lowland to lower montane forest or in secondary forest, on river banks and clayey or volcanic soil, sometimes on limestone, up to 1800 m altitude. The density of the wood is about 770 kg/m³at 15% moisture content.

Selected sources

474, 481.