Aglaia yzermannii (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Aglaia yzermannii Boerl. & Koord.

Protologue: Icon. Bogor.: t. 87 (1901).

Aglaia salicifolia Ridley (1910).

• Malaysia: tado ikan, sikjot (Peninsular).

Peninsular Malaysia and Sumatra.

A preparation of pounded leaves in cold water has been used in Peninsular Malaysia for washing the body after childbirth. The aril of the seed is edible.

A shrub or small tree up to 5 m tall; leaflets 3-5, with 9-15 pairs of secondary veins, glabrous or with a few brown or yellowish-brown scales below; flowers 5-merous, anthers 5; fruit indehiscent, 1-2-locular. In Peninsular Malaysia, A. yzermannii is a common rheophyte of riverine forest, up to 100 m altitude. There is only one collected specimen known from Sumatra.

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Sri Hayati Widodo