Aglaia erythrosperma (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Aglaia erythrosperma Pannell

Protologue: Kew Bull., Add. Ser. 16: 7 (1992).

Vernacular names

• Indonesia: boka-boka, parak daun besar (Sumatra), bunyau (Kalimantan)
• Malaysia: bekak (Peninsular), segera (Iban, Sarawak), lantupak (Dusun, Sabah).

Distribution

Peninsular Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo.

Uses

A. erythrosperma may provide a good timber.

Observations

A medium-sized to fairly large tree up to 35 m tall, bole branchless for up to 23 m, up to 50 cm in diameter, with small buttresses, bark surface pale pinkish-brown with reddish-brown and grey patches, inner bark pinkish-brown, red or green; leaflets 7-19, opposite to subopposite, sometimes alternate, with 7-13 pairs of secondary veins, shiny above, below with few to numerous pale brown stellate scales especially on the veins; flowers 3-merous, anthers 6(-8), style-head obovoid with 6 longitudinal lobes; fruit dehiscent, 3-locular. A. erythrosperma sometimes occurs as an emergent tree in primary evergreen forest and kerangas on sandy or clayey soils, from sea-level up to 1300 m altitude.

Selected sources

481, 705.