Aglaia rubiginosa (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Aglaia rubiginosa (Hiern) Pannell

Protologue: Mal. Forester 45: 455 (1982).

Synonyms

Amoora rubiginosa Hiern (1875), Aglaia ignea Valeton ex K. Heyne (1917).

Vernacular names

• Indonesia: parak api (Belitung), parak talang (Sumatra), parak merah (Bangka)
• Malaysia: bekak (Peninsular), lantupak (Dusun, Sabah).

Distribution

Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Sumatra and Borneo.

Uses

The wood is used e.g. for beams in house building and for boat building.

Observations

A medium-sized to fairly large tree up to 35 m tall, bole up to 50 cm in diameter, branchless for up to 20 m, buttresses up to 1 m high, bark surface pale pinkish-brown or greyish-brown, inner bark pale pinkish-brown; leaflets 15-21, subopposite, with 11-24 pairs of secondary veins, above pitted, glabrous and shiny, below densely covered with reddish-brown stellate scales having a darker centre, the veins less densely scaly; calyx shallowly 3-lobed, petals 3, anthers 6, style-head ellipsoid with 3 apical lobes and 6 longitudinal ridges; fruit dehiscent, 3-locular. A. rubiginosa is common, occurring most frequently in freshwater peat-swamp forest and kerangas, sometimes in primary lowland or hill forest, from sea-level up to 300 m altitude. The density of the wood is 835-1025 kg/m³at 15% moisture content.

Selected sources

77, 78, 140, 234, 474, 481, 705, 734.