Aglaia speciosa (PROSEA)
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Aglaia speciosa Blume
- Protologue: Bijdr. fl. Ned. Ind.: 171 (1825).
Vernacular names
- Indonesia: ganggo udang, setur padi (Sumatra)
- Malaysia: bekak, memberas (Peninsular).
Distribution
Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo (Sabah, Kalimantan) and Sulawesi (Sula).
Uses
The wood is thought to be used.
Observations
A medium-sized to fairly large tree up to 35 m tall, bole branchless for up to 20 m, up to 60 cm in diameter, buttresses up to 5 m high, bark surface reddish-brown, inner bark magenta or pink; leaflets (5-)7-11, subopposite, with 12-15 pairs of secondary veins, smooth and glabrous above, below sometimes pitted and with numerous peltate scales having a dark reddish-brown centre and a pale, barely or shortly fimbriate margin; flowers 5-merous, anthers 5, style-head columnar or obovoid with a central depression at the apex; fruit indehiscent, (1-)2-locular. A. speciosa is found in primary or secondary forest, on loam with lime, from sea-levelup to 2200 m altitude.
Selected sources
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