Aglaia subcuprea (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Aglaia subcuprea Merr. & Perry

Protologue: Journ. Arn. Arb. 21: 324 (1940).

Aglaia versteeghii Merr. & Perry (1940), Aglaia boanana Harms (1942).

New Guinea and New Ireland.

The wood is thought to be used.

A medium-sized tree up to 30 m tall, bole up to 160 cm in diameter, bark surface brown or black, mottled with grey, inner bark pale brown or reddish-brown; leaflets (3-)7-9(-11), subopposite, with 6-15 pairs of secondary veins, above glabrescent leaving the surface wrinkled or pitted, below sometimes glabrescent but usually densely covered with pale brown to reddish-brown peltate scales having a darker centre and a fimbriate margin; flowers 5-merous, anthers 5(-10), style-head ovoid to fusiform with 2 small apical lobes; fruit indehiscent, 2-locular. A. subcuprea is locally common in primary or secondary lowland or montane rain forest, sometimes in periodically inundated locations, on sandy clay or granitic soils, from sea-level up to 2600 m altitude. The density of the wood is 800-950 kg/m³at 15% moisture content.

474, 481.