Four-Petal Aglaia is a tree, up to 15 m tall. Bark is
3-4 mm thick, surface brownish-grey, mottled with green, smooth,
exfoliations thin, semi fibrous. Blaze is creamy yellow, exudation
white. Young parts, inflorescence, calyx and fruits are covered by
yellowish-brown scales. Leaves are imparipinnate, alternate, rachis
3.2-20 cm long, slender or stout, swollen at base covered with
yellowish-brown lepidote scales. Leaflets are 3-5, opposite or
subopposite. Leaflet-stalks are 3-10 mm, leaflets 6-20 x 1.5-7 cm,
asymmetrically broad ovate, elliptic-lanceolate or elliptic-obovate,
base obliquely acute or obtuse, apex acuminate, obtuse or obtusely
acuminate, margin entire, glabrous, densely scaly, leathery. Lateral
nerves are 7-18 pairs, pinnate, prominent. Flowers are
polygamo-dioecious, white; females and bisexuals in spikes; males in
panicles or racemes, in leaf axils. Flower-stalks are tetragonous,
short; calyx truncate, short, 4 lobed; lobes obscure; petals 4,
circular, long, subentire at apex, glabrous. Fruit is a capsule, 1.5-2
cm long, obovoid, obtuse, yellow; seeds surrounded by a fleshy aril.
Four-Petal Aglaia is found in Indomalaysia to Pacific Islands. In the
Western Ghats it is found in South, Central and south Maharashtra
Sahyadris.
Identification credit: Prashant Awale, Radhaveach
Photographed enroute to Sidhagad Fort, Murbad, Bhimashankar Region, Maharashtra.
• Is this flower misidentified?
If yes,
Your name: Your email: Your comments
The flower labeled Four-Petal Aglaia is ...