Aglaia luzoniensis (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Aglaia luzoniensis (S. Vidal) Merr. & Rolfe

Protologue: Philipp. Journ. Sci., Bot. 3: 105 (1908).

Synonyms

Aglaia unifoliolata Koord. (1898), Aglaia brevipetiolata Merr. (1916), Aglaia rizalensis Merr. (1918).

Vernacular names

• Indonesia: pisek-rintek (Sulawesi)
• Philippines: kuling-manuk (general), kansulud-pugot, Rizal kaniue (Tagalog).

Distribution

Borneo, Sulawesi and the Philippines.

Uses

The wood is sometimes used e.g. for house posts, window sills and general construction.

Observations

A small tree up to 10 m tall, bole short, up to 40 cm in diameter, with prominent buttresses, bark surface brown or red, inner bark red or reddish-brown; leaflets 1, with 5-18 pairs of secondary veins, smooth and glabrous above, below with numerous orange-brown or reddish-brown peltate scales sometimes with fimbriate margin on the midrib and less dense on the intervenal parts; calyx 5-lobed, petals 5(-6), anthers 5, style-head ovoid or depressed globose, sometimes with a central depression at the apex; fruit indehiscent, 1-2-locular. A. luzoniensis occurs scattered in primary or secondary forest, on sandy to clayey soils or on limestone, from sea-level up to 1400 m altitude. The density of the wood is 535-1085 kg/m³at 15% moisture content.

Selected sources

414, 474, 481, 527, 544.