Aglaia grandis | |
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Herbarium specimen of Aglaia grandis | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Sapindales |
Family: | Meliaceae |
Genus: | Aglaia |
Species: | A. grandis |
Binomial name | |
Aglaia grandis Korth. ex Miq. | |
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Aglaia grandis is a species of plant in the Mahogany Family (Meliaceae). It is found in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its once-pinnate leaves are up to 6ft. 7in (200 centimeters) in length, with individual leaflets up to 23 inches (58 cm) long by seven inches (18 cm) wide.. [2] This is the largest once-pinnate leaf of any hardwood (Dicot) tree. The tree can reach a height of up to eighty-eight feet (27 meters). [3]
Aglaia is a genus of 121 recognised species of woody dioecious trees in the mahogany family Meliaceae. They occur in the subtropical and tropical forests of Southeast Asia, northern Australia and the Pacific.
Entandrophragma cylindricum is a tree of the genus Entandrophragma of the family Meliaceae. It is commonly known as sapele or sapelli or sapele mahogany, as well as aboudikro, assi, and muyovu.
Aglaia amplexicaulis is a species of tree in the family Meliaceae, endemic to Fiji.
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 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. This species was first described in 1940 by Elmer Drew Merrill and Lily May Perry from a specimen collected in the Solomons.
Aglaia ceramica is a species of plant in the family Meliaceae. It is a tree endemic to the Maluku Islands in Indonesia.
Aglaia densisquama is a species of plant in the family Meliaceae. It is a tree endemic to Borneo where it is confined to Sarawak.
Aglaia densitricha is a species of plant in the family Meliaceae. It is a tree endemic to Peninsular Malaysia.
Aglaia elaeagnoidea, the droopy leaf or priyangu, is a species of plant in the family Meliaceae. It is a 10m tall tree found in American Samoa, Australia, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Samoa, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Vanuatu, and Vietnam.
Aglaia gracilis is a species of plant in the family Meliaceae. It is endemic to Fiji.
Aglaia lawii is a species of tree in the family Meliaceae. As well as the autonym species, there are two subspecies accepted.
Aglaia laxiflora is a tree species in the family Meliaceae. It is native to Borneo, excluding the region that is the Malaysian state of Sarawak, an island located north of Australia at the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia and is divided between the countries of Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia and Malaysia.
Aglaia lepiorrhachis is a species of tree in the family Meliaceae. It is endemic to New Guinea.
Aglaia macrostigma is a species of plant in the family Meliaceae. It is a tree endemic to Peninsular Malaysia.
Aglaia malabarica is a species of plant in the family Meliaceae. It is endemic to Kerala, India.
Aglaia rufinervis is a species of tree in the family Meliaceae. It is native to Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Sumatra, Borneo and Java.
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 subsessilis is a species of plant in the family Meliaceae. It is a tree endemic to Borneo.
Chisocheton macrophyllus in the Mahogany family (Meliaceae) is a pachycaul rainforest tree of the East Indies and Malay Peninsula with very few upright limbs (reiterations) ultimately reaching a height of 115 feet. Each reiteration is topped by a tight rosette of once-pinnate leaves up to ten feet in length with up to 28 pairs of leaflets at any given time, each up to 15.5 inches long by 4.5 inches in width. Like all Chisocheton species, these leaves are indeterminate, forming a new pair of leaflets every few weeks or months. while the oldest pair may die. The cream-colored flowers, 1.5 inches long with 4 or 5 petals, are arranged in a thyrse up to 32 inches long, followed by pyriform capsules up to six inches in diameter with 2 to 4 seeds each the size and shape of a brazilnut.