Aglaia exstipulata (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Aglaia exstipulata (Griffith) W. Theob.

Protologue: Mason, Burmah ed. 3, 2: 583 (1883).

Synonyms

Aglaia longifolia Teijsm. & Binnend. (1864), Aglaia griffithii (Hiern) Kurz (1875), Aglaia minutiflora Bedd. var. griffithii Hiern (1875).

Vernacular names

• Malaysia: balun hijau, kerantai, gerenggong (Peninsular).

Distribution

Southern Burma (Myanmar), peninsular Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore and Borneo.

Uses

The wood is thought to be used. The aril of the seed is edible.

Observations

A small to medium-sized tree up to 25 m tall, bole branchless for up to 15 m, up to at least 30 cm in diameter, bark surface brown or greyish-brown, inner bark pale brown; leaflets 11-23, subopposite, usually oblong, with 7-16 pairs of secondary veins, sometimes with numerous pits on both surfaces, above with reddish-brown stellate hairs on the midrib, below with similar hairs all over the surface interspersed with smaller, paler, fewer-rayed hairs; flowers 5-merous, anthers 5, style-head ovoid to globose; fruit indehiscent, 2-locular. A. exstipulata is fairly common in Peninsular Malaysia and occurs in primary or secondary evergreen forest, often on hills and ridges, on sandy to clayey soils, at 50-1400 m altitude. The density of the wood is about 995 kg/m³at 15% moisture content.

Selected sources

78, 140, 294, 481, 705.