Aglaia pachyphylla (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Aglaia pachyphylla Miq.

Protologue: Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 4: 57 (1868).

Aglaia barbatula Koord. & Valeton (1896), Aglaia clarkii Merr. (1905), Aglaia megistocarpa Merr. (1929).

• Indonesia: siluwar (Sundanese, Java), singkok (Kalimantan)
• Malaysia: semeliang (Peninsular), langsat-langsat, koping-koping (Sabah)
• Philippines: tukang-kalau (Tagalog), guijo, makaasim (general).

Peninsular Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, western Java, Borneo, south-eastern Sulawesi and the Philippines (Burias).

The wood is used e.g. for furniture, bridges, planks and temporary construction.

A medium-sized to large tree up to 43 m tall, bole branchless for up to 20 m, up to 90 cm in diameter, sometimes with buttresses up to 3 m high, bark surface brown, greyish-brown or greenish-grey, inner bark dark brown to pale yellowish-brown; leaflets 13-23, subopposite, with (15-)20-45 pairs of secondary veins, shiny and glabrous above and with numerous small pits, below densely covered with pale reddish-brown tree-shaped hairs or with pale to dark brown stellate hairs or scales; flowers 5-merous, anthers 5, style-head cylindrical, truncate at apex; fruit indehiscent, 2(-4)-locular. A. pachyphylla occurs frequently to very commonly along rivers, in primary or secondary forest and forest margins, on sandstone, clay or limestone, from sea-level up to 1350 m altitude. The wood is reported to be hard and durable and has a density of about 855 kg/m³at 15% moisture content.

77, 302, 303, 414, 481, 527, 544, 626, 705.