Aglaia elaeagnoidea | |
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Scientific classification | |
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 | |
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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 [4] [5] ), Thailand, Vanuatu, and Vietnam. [6]
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]
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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Aglaia apiocarpa is a species of plant in the family Meliaceae. It is found in Southern India and Sri Lanka.
Aglaia argentea is a species of plant in the family Meliaceae. It is a tree found in Australia, Brunei, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, the Solomon Islands, and Thailand.
Aglaia australiensis is a species of plant in the family Meliaceae. It is endemic to Australia.
Aglaia brassii is a species of plant in the family Meliaceae. It is found in Australia, West Papua (Indonesia), Papua New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands.
Aglaia brownii is a species of plant in the family Meliaceae. It is found in Australia, West Papua (Indonesia), and Papua New Guinea.
Aglaia chittagonga is a species of plant in the family Meliaceae. It is found in Bangladesh, Taiwan, and Thailand.
Aglaia lawii is a species of tree in the family Meliaceae. As well as the autonym species, there are two subspecies accepted.
Aglaia meridionalis is a species of plant in the family Meliaceae. It is endemic to Queensland, Australia.
Aglaia odorata is a species of plant in the family Meliaceae. It is found in Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Myanmar, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, and possibly Laos.
Aglaia rimosa is an evergreen small tree in the family Meliaceae. It is found in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, and Taiwan. Aglaia rimosa "grows primarily in the wet tropical biome".The official name of Aglaia rimosa in Taiwan is Large-leaved aglaia, because compared with the other two species native to Taiwan, Aglaia elaeagnoidea and Aglaias chittagonga, the leaflet of Aglaia rimosa is larger than their leaflet, all three are imparipinnate.The flowers of Aglaia rimosa have fragrance, but it is lighter than that of Aglaia odorata.The anticancer compound Rocaglamide (RocA) was originally extracted from Aglaia rimosa by researchers in Taiwan.
Aglaia samoensis is a species of tree in the family Meliaceae. It is found in American Samoa, New Guinea, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and Wallis and Futuna Islands.
Aglaia sapindina is a species of plant in the family Meliaceae. It is found in Australia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands.
Aglaia spectabilis is a species of tree in the family Meliaceae, found from the Santa Cruz Islands in the southwest Pacific to Queensland (Australia), Southeast Asia, Yunnan (Zhōngguó/China) and the Indian subcontinent. It grows from a 1m shrub to an emergent 40m tall tree, depending on the habitat. Its wood is commercially exploited as timber, but otherwise is of poor quality with limited use. The fruit are eaten, and used in folk medicine. The seeds are large in comparison to other plants, and a major source of dispersal of the species are hornbills eating the fruit, flying away from the tree and regurgitating the seeds.
Aglaia tomentosa is a species of plant in the family Meliaceae. It is found in Australia (Queensland), Brunei, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Singapore, and Vietnam.
Chukrasia tabularis, the Indian mahogany, is a deciduous, tropical forest tree species in the family Meliaceae. It is native to Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam. Also introduced to many western countries such as Cameroon, Costa Rica, Nigeria, Puerto Rico, South Africa, and United States.
Aglaia roxburghiana is a species of Aglaia. It is native to South Asia and Australia.
Crotalaria similis, also known as the Pingtung Curara pea, belongs to the family Fabaceae and genus Crotalaria. It is a perennial crawling herb, an endemic species of Taiwan which the distribution is limited to the Eastern seaside of the Hengchun Peninsula.
Piper kawakamii, also known as the Kawakamii pepper, is a flowering plant in the family Piperaceae. It is a native endemic species in Taiwan. The plant is mainly distributed in the Hengchun Peninsula. It was collected by Takiya Kawakami at the Kuraru Community, on July 2, 1906. In 1911, the plant was published by Bunzō Hayata as a new species. The type specimen of this plant is being preserved in the Botanical Gardens, Graduate School of Science, the University of Tokyo, Japan. and the Herbarium of Taiwan Forest Research Institute