Anisoptera aurea (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Anisoptera aurea Foxw.

Protologue: Philipp. Journ. Sc. 67: 271 (1938).

Synonyms

• Anisoptera curtisii Foxw. (1911) non Dyer ex King.

Vernacular names

• Philippines: dagang (general), palosapis (Tagalog, Pangasinan), dagum (Bikol).

Distribution

The Philippines.

Uses

The wood is suitable for general construction, interior finish, ship planking, wooden tanks, tight cooperage and for veneer and plywood.

Observations

• A fairly large tree of up to 40 m tall, bole up to 160 cm in diameter, bark cream-brown, shaggily flaky.
• Leaves 7-11 cm × 2.5-5.5 cm, oblong or oblanceolate, densely golden lepidote beneath, with 18-20 pairs of secondary veins prominent on both surfaces.
• Flower bud lanceolate, stamens 35-38, stylopodium broadly ellipsoid-cylindrical, densely golden stellate-puberulent.

A. aurea grows in mixed dipterocarp forest, especially on ridges up to 600 m altitude, in areas with rainfall throughout the year. The density of the wood is 550-790 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content.

Selected sources

18, 175, 258, 748.

Main genus page

• Anisoptera

Authors

• M.H.A. Hoffman (selection of species)