Aglaia elaeagnoidea

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Aglaia elaeagnoidea
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Sapindales
Family: Meliaceae
Genus: Aglaia
Species:
A. elaeagnoidea
Binomial name
Aglaia elaeagnoidea
(A.Juss.) Benth.
Synonyms
  • Aglaia abbreviataC.Y.Wu
  • Aglaia canariifolia Koord.
  • Aglaia cupreolepidota Merr.
  • Aglaia elaeagnoidea var. beddomei (Gamble) N.C.Nair
  • Aglaia elaeagnoidea var. bourdillonii (Gamble) N.C.Nair
  • Aglaia elaeagnoidea var. courtallensis (Gamble) N.C.Nair
  • Aglaia elaeagnoidea var. formosana Hayata
  • Aglaia elaeagnoidea var. pallens Merr.
  • Aglaia formosana (Hayata) Hayata
  • Aglaia grata Wall. ex Voigt
  • Aglaia hoanensis Pierre
  • Aglaia lepidota Miq.
  • Aglaia littoralis Talbot [Illegitimate] )
  • Aglaia midnaporensis Carey ex Voigt
  • Aglaia odoratissima Benth. [Illegitimate]
  • Aglaia pallens (Merr.) Merr.
  • Aglaia parvifolia Merr.
  • Aglaia poilanei Pellegr.
  • Aglaia poulocondorensis Pellegr.
  • Aglaia roxburghiana (Wight & Arn.) Miq.
  • Aglaia roxburghiana var. beddomei Gamble
  • Aglaia roxburghiana var. courtallensis Gamble
  • Aglaia spanoghei Blume ex Miq.
  • Aglaia talbotii Sundararagh.
  • Aglaia wallichii Hiern
  • Amoora poulocondorensis (Pellegr.) Harms
  • Milnea roxburghiana Wight & Arn.
  • Nemedra elaeagnoidea A. Juss. Sy
  • Sapindus lepidotus Wall.
  • Walsura lanceolata Wall. [2]

Aglaia elaeagnoidea, the droopy leaf or priyangu, [3] is a species of plant in the family Meliaceae. It is a 10m tall tree found in American Samoa, Australia (Western Australia and Queensland), Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Samoa, Sri Lanka, Taiwan (Hengchun Peninsula  [ zh ] [4] [5] ), Thailand, Vanuatu, and Vietnam. [6]

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Description

Timber is bright red color is a hard wood. [7] Bark is greyish brown in color. White latex can be exudate. Leaves are compound, imparipinnate, alternate; lamina narrow-elliptic to oblanceolate; apex bluntly acute to subacuminate; base acute to cuneate. [8] Flowers show axillary panicles inflorescence. Fruit is a brown or red, indehiscent [9] globose berry. [10]

Common names

Uses

The wood is hard and is a good material for construction. The aborigines often used it to build houses in Taiwan. It can also be used to make various utensils. [12] )

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References

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