Aglaia flavida (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Aglaia flavida Merr. & Perry

Protologue: Journ. Arn. Arb. 21: 320 (1940).

• Indonesia: amsam (Asmat, Irian Jaya).

New Guinea, New Britain and the Solomon Islands.

The wood is used for house construction, paddles, tool handles and canoes.

A medium-sized to fairly large tree up to 36 m tall, bole up to 95 cm in diameter, buttresses up to 3 m high, bark surface dark brown or reddish-brown, grey or even white; leaflets 7-15, subopposite, with 6-20 pairs of secondary veins, smooth, glabrous above, below with numerous orange to pale brown peltate scales with a darker centre on the midrib, the intervenal parts below scattered with these scales; flowers 3-merous, anthers 6, style-head with 3 apical lobes; fruit dehiscent, 3-locular. A. flavida is fairly common and occurs in primary or secondary lowland and hill forest on well-drained or occasionally inundated locations, from sea-level up to 1300 m altitude.

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