Aglaia leucophylla (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Aglaia leucophylla King

Protologue: Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 64: 66 (1895).

Aglaia heteroclita King (1895), Aglaia kunstleri King (1895), Aglaia agusanensis Elmer ex Merr. (1937).

• Indonesia: ganggo bareh, letung (Sumatra), perumpong hutan (Kalimantan)
• Malaysia: bekak kedongong, pasak lingga (Peninsular), lantupak (Dusun, Sabah)
• Philippines: bubunau (Manobo), agusan bulog (Panay Bisaya).

Peninsular Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, Sulawesi and the Philippines.

The wood is used e.g. for house poles.

A small to medium-sized tree up to 20 m tall, bole up to 20 cm in diameter, sometimes fluted at base, bark surface grey to brown, inner bark pale yellow; leaflets 9-15(-17),alternate to subopposite, with 8-14 pairs of secondary veins, rugulose on both surfaces and pitted below, glabrous above, below with few to numerous tiny golden-brown stellate scales, sometimes interspersed with darker peltate scales or stellate hairs; flowers 5-merous, anthers 5(-7), style-head depressed globose; fruit indehiscent, 2-locular. A. leucophylla is found in primary but more often in secondary evergreen forest, sometimes in riverine or moss forest, on sandy to clayey soils or limestone, from sea-level up to 1300 m altitude.

465, 481, 544, 705.