Aglaia hiernii (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Aglaia hiernii King

Protologue: Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 64: 71 (1895).

Synonyms

Aglaia curtisii King (1895), Aglaia caudatifoliolata Merr. (1929), Aglaia ochneocarpa Merr. (1934).

Vernacular names

• Indonesia: balik-angin, madang palapah (Sumatra), jalungang sasak (Kalimantan)
• Malaysia: segera (Iban, Sarawak).

Distribution

Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo.

Uses

The wood is thought to be used.

Observations

A medium-sized tree up to 30 m tall, bole up to 35 cm in diameter, bark surface greenish-brown or grey, inner bark green; leaflets (7-)9(-13), opposite, with 12-25 pairs of secondary veins, smooth, glabrescent above, below with reddish-brown stellate hairs densely covering the midrib and numerous on the intervenal parts, in addition interspersed with numerous pale brown stellate scales or hairs; calyx with 4 or 5 lobes, petals 5, anthers 5; fruit indehiscent, 1-locular. A. hiernii is found in primary or secondary forest or old wasteland, on sandy to clay-loamy soils, from sea-level up to 1700 m altitude.

Selected sources

481, 705.