Aglaia rivularis (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Aglaia rivularis Merr.

Protologue: Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 15: 125 (1929).

• Malaysia: lambunan (Dusun Labuk, Sabah).

Borneo (West Kalimantan and Sabah).

The wood is used for fence posts in Sabah.

A small tree up to 15 m tall, bole branchless for up to 10 m, up to 50 cm in diameter, bark surface brown or whitish-brown, inner bark reddish-brown or pale brown; leaflets 1, with 10-17 pairs of secondary veins, smooth, glabrous above, below with reddish-brown to pale brown peltate scales often having a short fimbriate margin, densely scaly on the midrib, few elsewhere; calyx (4-)5-lobed, petals 5, anthers 5, style-head ovoid or depressed globose, with an apical depression; fruit indehiscent, 1-locular. A. rivularis is a rheophyte of riverine forest on sand, and occurs from sea-level up to 500 m altitude.

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