Aglaia forbesii (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Aglaia forbesii King

Protologue: Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 64: 68 (1895).

Synonyms

Aglaia humilis King (1895).

Vernacular names

• Indonesia: langsat burung (Kalimantan)
• Malaysia: langsat (Peninsular), lantupak (Dusun, Sabah), segera (Iban, Sarawak).

Distribution

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

Uses

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

Observations

A medium-sized to fairly large tree up to 35 m tall, bole up to 60 cm in diameter; leaflets 9-15, usually alternate, with 9-24 pairs of secondary veins, rugulose and pitted but glabrous above, below with few to numerous white, pale brown or reddish-brown stellate hairs or scales; calyx with 5 lobes, petals 5-6, anthers 5, style-head ovoid, with 2 small apical lobes, longitudinally ridged; fruit indehiscent, 2-locular. A. forbesii is found in primary and secondary evergreen forest, along rivers, on sandy or clayey soils and on ultrabasic soils, up to 1000 m altitude.

Selected sources

465, 481, 705.