Aglaia argentea (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Aglaia argentea Blume

Protologue: Bijdr. fl. Ned. Ind.: 170 (1825).

• Aglaia splendens (Koord. & Valeton) Koord. & Valeton (1897),
• Aglaia multifoliola Merr. (1915),
• Aglaia discolor Merr. (1929).

• Indonesia: bayur (Sumatra), tanglar, selang (Java), luka-lukam (Moluccas)
• Malaysia: pasak (Peninsular), jalongan sasak (Sabah), lantupak (Dusun, Sarawak), jalongan sasak (Sarawak)
• Philippines: kansulud (Panay Bisaya)
• Burma (Myanmar): tagat-thitto
• Thailand: sangkhriat-klong (Trang).

Burma (Myanmar), peninsular Thailand, throughout Malesia but rare in the Philippines, towards the Solomon Islands and northern Australia (Cape York Peninsula).

A. argentea is a potential source of compounds with anticancer and insecticidal properties. It is a fairly important source of timber. The aril of the seed is edible.

• A small to medium-sized tree up to 30 m tall, bole branchless for up to 18 m, up to 60 cm in diameter, buttresses up to 1 m high, bark surface brown or greyish-green, inner bark white, yellow or brown.
• Leaflets 9-19, subopposite, with 11-25 pairs of secondary veins, smooth, glabrescent above, below densely covered with white and some brown peltate scales, often having a short fimbriate margin.
• Flowers 5-merous, anthers 5, style-head subglobose or ovoid, longitudinally ridged.
• Fruit indehiscent, 2(-3)-locular.

A. argentea is fairly common and occurs scattered in primary or secondary evergreen to semi-evergreen forest overlying granite, basalt, sandstone, clay or limestone, and also in peat-swamp forest, e.g. in Sarawak, together with ramin (Gonystylus bancanus (Miq.) Kurz) and sometimes alan (Shorea albida Sym.); from sea-level up to 1300 m altitude. The density of the wood is 660-960 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content.

69, 77, 145, 282, 302, 303, 337, 414, 474, 481, 544, 705, 734. timbers

182, 247, 541, 635, 636, 702. medicinals

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• Sri Hayati Widodo