Aglaia grandis (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Aglaia grandis Korth. ex Miq.

Protologue: Ann. Mus. Bot. Ludg.-Bat. 4: 56 (1868).

Aglaia lanuginosa King (1895), Aglaia hemsleyi Koord. (1898), Aglaia merostela Pellegrin (1911).

• Indonesia: purisihula (Sulawesi)
• Malaysia: pasak lingga (Peninsular)
• Philippines: barongisan-dilau (Tagalog), lambunau (Tagbanua).

Southern Vietnam, peninsular Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo, northern Sulawesi and the Philippines.

The wood is used.

A medium-sized tree up to 27 m tall, bole branchless for up to 17 m, up to at least 30 cm in diameter, bark surface grey, inner bark brown or dark brown; leaflets 11-21(-25), subopposite, with 14-46 pairs of secondary veins, shiny and glabrous above, below densely covered with pale brown hairs with a central rachis and several whorls of arms radiating from it; flowers 5-merous, anthers 5, style-head cylindrical, narrowed slightly to the obtuse apex; fruit indehiscent, 3-locular. A. grandis is found in primary forest, sometimes on ultrabasic soils or limestone, from sea-level up to 1700 m altitude. The density of the wood is 770-860 kg/m³at 15% moisture content.

140, 465, 474, 481, 544, 705.