Aglaia rufinervis (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Aglaia rufinervis (Blume) Bentvelzen

Protologue: Acta Bot. Neerl. 11: 19 (1962).

Synonyms

Aglaia trichostemon C.DC. (1878), Aglaia montana C.DC. (1912), Aglaia borneensis Merr. (1917).

Vernacular names

• Indonesia: kawauk (Java)
• Malaysia: bekak, rim, chiang lima (Peninsular)
• Thailand: sangkhriat-lai (Trang).

Distribution

Peninsular Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Sumatra, western Java and Borneo.

Uses

The wood is used only locally, e.g. for ladders and poles, as it seems to split easily. The fruit is reported to be edible.

Observations

A small tree up to 15 m tall, bole branchless for up to 10 m, up to at least 20 cm in diameter, bark surface brown or grey, inner bark pale orange-brown; leaflets 15-19, subopposite, with 9-18 pairs of secondary veins, above rugulose, pitted and glabrous, below with numerous pits and densely covered with reddish-brown stellate scales on the midrib and brown or pale brown stellate scales on the intervenal parts; flowers 5-merous, anthers 5, style-head narrowly ovoid; fruit indehiscent, 1-locular. A. rufinervis is common in primary and secondary forest and has been found on sandy loam, clay and limestone, from sea-level up to 1330 m altitude.

Selected sources

78, 481, 705.