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General Information

Aglaia foveolata is an evergreen tree with a dense, feathery crown; it usually grows up to 20 metres tall, occasionally reaching 25 metres. The bole can be up to 60cm in diameter with buttresses up to 75cm high and 30cm outwards[].
The tree is possibly harvested from the wild for local use as a food.
The plant is potentially threatened by habitat loss. It is classified as 'Near Threatened' in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species(2013)[].

Known Hazards

None known

Botanical References

Range

Southeast Asia - Malaysia, Indonesia.

Habitat

Dense primary forest; the more open, secondary formations; swamps; riverine forests; ridge forests; growing on sands, silty clays and clays; at elevations up to 1,000 metres[].

Properties

Conservation Status	Near Threatened
Edibility Rating
Habit	Evergreen Tree
Height	17.00 m
Pollinators	Insects
Self-fertile	No
Cultivation Status	Wild

Cultivation Details

A dioecious species, both male and female forms need to be grown if fruit and seed are required[].

Edible Uses

The fruit has a sweet flavour[]. The report does not specifically say that the fruit is edible, but in general all sweet-tasting fruits in this genus should be edible[]. The subglobose, purple, brown, orange or yellow fruits are up to 25mm long, containing up to 2 seeds which can each be covered with a thin, sweet-tasting layer of flesh[].

Medicinal

The genus 'Aglaia' is the only source of the group of about 50 known representatives of compounds that bear a unique cyclopenta[b]tetrahydrobenzofuran skeleton. These compounds are more commonly called rocaglate or rocaglamide derivatives, or flavaglines, and most have been found to have potent insecticidal properties, antifungal, antiviral, antibacterial or anthelmintic bioactivity. Several of them exhibit pronounced cytotoxic activity against a range of human cancers. Since the first representative in this group was only discovered in 1982, this is one of the few recent examples of a completely new class of plant secondary metabolites of biological promise (see B. G. Wang et al., Biochem. Syst. Ecol. 32: 1223-1226. 2004; L.W. Chaidir et al., J. Nat. Prod. 64: 1216-1220. 2001)[, ].

Other Uses

The genus 'Aglaia' is the only source of the group of about 50 known representatives of compounds that bear a unique cyclopenta[b]tetrahydrobenzofuran skeleton. These compounds are more commonly called rocaglate or rocaglamide derivatives, or flavaglines, and most have been found to have potent insecticidal properties, antifungal, antiviral, antibacterial or anthelmintic bioactivity. Several of them exhibit pronounced cytotoxic activity against a range of human cancers. Since the first representative in this group was only discovered in 1982, this is one of the few recent examples of a completely new class of plant secondary metabolites of biological promise (see B. G. Wang et al., Biochem. Syst. Ecol. 32: 1223-1226. 2004; L.W. Chaidir et al., J. Nat. Prod. 64: 1216-1220. 2001)[, ].

The heartwood is brown or reddish-brown; the sapwood yellowish-brown[].

Propagation

Seed -

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