Aglaia Lour.

Trees or shrubs with indumentum of stellate hairs or peltate scales. Leaves usually pinnate, rarely 3-foliolate or unifoliolate. In florescence usually an axillary panicle, rarely cauliflorous; the males large, many-flowered; females small, few-flowered. Flowers unisexual, male and female flowers found on different individuals (dioecious); female flowers larger than the males. Calyx 3 - 5-lobed, valvate or imbricate. Petals 3 - 6, free or united at base, free from staminal tube or partly united with it, imbricate. Staminal tube globose, cup-shaped or cylindric, entire or crenate at margin, rarely lobed, 0.5 - 5.5 mm long; anthers generally 5 - 10, glabrous, rarely hairy, inserted in a single whorl, included or partly exserted. Antherodes similar but without pollen. Disk absent. Ovary usually 1 - 3-locular; locules 1- or 2-ovuled; style short or absent; stigma small, capitate, conical or lobed. Pistillode with or without rudimentary ovules. Fruit a berry, nut or sometimes a capsule; seeds arillate, sometimes with a fleshy sarcotesta.

Indo-Malesian region, Australia, Melanesia and Polynesia with ca 100 species; 23 in India.

KEY TO THE SPECIES

1a. Anthers exserted; seeds angular

2

b. Anthers included in staminal tube or nearly so; seeds not angular

3

2a. Leaves simple

21. Aglaia simplicifolia

b. Leaves compound; leaflets 3 or 5

15. Aglaia indica

3a. Fruit a capsule

4

b. Fruit a berry

8

4a. Petals 4; anthers 8; ovary 3-locular; locules 1-ovuled

18. Aglaia lawii

b. Petals 6; anthers 6 - 10; ovary 2 - 3-locular; locules 2-ovuled

5

5a. Leaflets (2-) 7, alternate or subalternate

6

b. Leaflets 3 - 13, opposite or subopposite

7

6a. Calyx 3-lobed; ovary 2-locular

6. Aglaia chittagonga

b. Calyx 5-lobed; ovary 3-locular

16. Aglaia jainii

7a. Leaflets obtuse at apex; anthers 6

7. Aglaia cucullata

b. Leaflets abruptly acuminate at apex; anthers 8(-10)

22. Aglaia spectabilis

8a. Flowers 4-merous

11. Aglaia fusca

b. Flowers 5-merous

9

9a. Leaflets glabrous or with very minute pustulate scales

10

b. Leaflets with lepidote scales or stellate-tomentose

12

10a. Leaflets glabrous

11

b. Leaflets minutely pustulate on both surfaces

12. Aglaia ganggo

11a. Leaflets 5 - 8, alternate

13. Aglaia glaucescens

b. Leaflets 9 - 13, alternate or opposite

19. Aglaia maiae

12a. Leaflets with lepidote scales at least when young

13

b. Leaflets with lepidote scales mixed with stellate hairs

21

13a. Panicles shorter than leaves

14

b. Panicles as long as or longer than leaves

18

14a. Anthers 10

14. Aglaia haslettiana

b. Anthers less than 10

15

15a. Leaflets 3 - 5

17. Aglaia khasiana

b. Leaflets 5 - 7

16

16a. Shrub or small tree

2. Aglaia apiocarpa

b. Medium·sized or large trees

17

17a. Leaves to 45 cm long; leaflets 5 - 7, lepidote beneath

1. Aglaia andamanica

b. Leaves to 15 cm long; leaflets 7, lepidote along main nerves

4. Aglaia barberi

18a. Leaves 5-foliolate; panicles longer than leaves

23. Aglaia talbotii

b. Leaves pinnate; panicles not longer than leaves

19

19a. Leaflets usually 5, rarely 3 or 7

9. Aglaia elaeagnoidea

b. Leaflets 9 or more

20

20a. Leaflets 13, glabrous except main nerves beneath; flowers sessile

5. Aglaia canarensis

b. Leaflets 9 - 18, lepidote when young, almost glabrous when mature; flowers short-pedicellate

20. Aglaia perviridis

21a. Leaflets with silvery white indumentum beneath

3. Aglaia argentea

b. Leaflets with reddish or brownish indumentum

22

22a. Leaflets 9 - 13, with lepidote scales and stellate hairs on nerves beneath; stamens included; berries pulpy.

8. Aglaia edulis

b. Leaflets 7 - 15, glabrous above except nerves, densely lepidote-tomentose beneath; stamens exserted; berries not pulpy

10. Aglaia exstipulata

List of Lower Taxa