Aglaia parviflora (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Aglaia parviflora C.DC.

Protologue: Bull. Herb. Boiss., Sér. II, 3: 176 (1903).

Synonyms

Aglaia forbesiana C.DC. (1903), Aglaia procera C.DC. (1913), Aglaia acariaeantha Harms (1942).

Vernacular names

• Indonesia: lai, lasaba (Moluccas), mansaambree (Biak, Irian Jaya).

Distribution

The southern Moluccas, New Guinea, New Britain and the Solomon Islands.

Uses

The wood is used e.g. for house construction in Papua New Guinea.

Observations

A small to medium-sized tree up to 20 m tall, bole branchless for up to 16 m, up to 30 cm in diameter, bark surface yellowish-brown or pale greyish-brown, inner bark pinkish-brown; leaflets 5-7(-9), subopposite, with 7-17(-26) pairs of secondary veins, smooth and glabrous above, below sometimes pitted, with few to numerous orange-brown or yellowish-brown peltate scales with a fimbriate margin, more densely scaly on the midrib; flowers 5-merous, anthers 5, style-head flattened and with shallow marginal lobes; fruit indehiscent, 2-locular. A. parviflora is locally common and occurs in primary and secondary forest, sometimes on ridges, in riverine forest or along the coast, on sandy or sandy clay soils, volcanic loam or limestone, up to 1700 m altitude.

Selected sources

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