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Aglaia elaeagnoidea (A.Juss.) Benth.

Digaba, Gupak, Kemubang, Khangkhao

Climate known 81 photographs
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Summary

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.

Text from Wikipedia, “Aglaia elaeagnoidea”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written. Kept separate from everything derived here.

Family
Meliaceae
Described by
(A.Juss.) Benth.
Native to
Taiwan, Borneo, Lesser Sunda Is. +8
Wild records
758 in range· 595 open

At a glance

Warmest month
28°C
Jan, mean day; nights 25 °C (CHELSA)
Rain
1643mm/yr
12 wet months · peak Feb 302 mm (CHELSA)
Light
28–43DLI
mol/m²/day, winter to summer, open sky (CHELSA shortwave)
In short condensed by rule from the cultivation cards · not written by a person
Rain rule: a sharp rainy season, December to April at the habitat (not shifted); the temperature curve is flat (3.2 °C of range), so no growing season is inferred. Habitat rain 1643 mm a year, wettest February at 302 mm, driest September at 33 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere). Open sky over the habitat: 28 to 43 mol/m²/day. Cold floor 19.1 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).
Each sentence is one card's own one-line form, written by the same rule as the card (Its year, Rain, Light, Temperature); the note cannot say what a card does not. Months are given for the northern hemisphere (set your site in Settings to change this), and the habitat's own alongside. The cards · the figures.

Also known as Aglaia abbreviata C.Y.Wu; Aglaia canariifolia Koord.; Aglaia cupreolepidota Merr.; Aglaia elaeagnoidea var. formosana Hayata; Aglaia elaeagnoidea var. glabrescens Valeton and 32 more.

Cultivation

Its year Rain rule: a sharp rainy season, December to April at the habitat (not shifted); the temperature curve is flat (3.2 °C of range), so no growing season is inferred.

This species’ habitat figures, and what two fixed rules read from them.

The rain rule reads a sharp season: 70% of the year's rain (1169 mm of 1643 mm) falls in December to April. The temperature curve is flat, 3.2 °C between the warmest and coldest month, so the growing-season rule does not infer a growing season from it. Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; with a flat temperature curve there is no season to reverse, so they are not shifted for a collection elsewhere.

Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the envelope cells: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve gives a season to reverse. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain Habitat rain 1643 mm a year, wettest February at 302 mm, driest September at 33 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

1643 mm a year at the habitat, 1169 mm of it December to April. Wettest month February at 302 mm, driest September at 33 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 1228 mm to 2772 mm (10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year) (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the envelope cells. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light Open sky over the habitat: 28 to 43 mol/m²/day.

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Open sky over the habitat: 28 to 43 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 22, the highest 90th-percentile month 46).

CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Warmth and air Cold floor 19.1 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell is 19.1 °C, the absolute minimum 16.2 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 27.8 °C. Monthly means: coldest night 20.7 °C in July (across the envelope cells 16.3 °C to 25.5 °C), warmest day 28.0 °C in January (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: 19.1 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell (NASA POWER).

NASA POWER daily minima and maxima 1981–2024 at the typical cell, lapse-corrected to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA. The cold floor is the figure named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 61 to 66% across the year (monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the envelope cells.

The figures the cards read from are in Climate below, and where they came from in Natural habitat.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat climate through the yearMean day from 25 °C in Aug to 28 °C in Jan; mean night from 21 °C in Jul to 25 °C in Feb. The cold quarter, Jun to Aug, is the three months around the coldest night. 1643 mm of rain a year, most in Feb. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 382 habitat cells. Over 44 years at the typical cell the absolute minimum was 16.2 °C and the 99th-percentile day 27.8 °C; neither is dated to a month. Beneath: daily light integral and relative humidity through the year, each on its own scale.15°20°25°30°35°27.8° 99th-percentile day (undated)16.2° lowest night in 44 yrs (undated)°C · day and nightcold quarter0100200300400500mm rainDLI 28–43RH 61–66 %JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain 10th–90th percentile across 382 habitat cells cold quarter: the three months around the coldest night extremes over 44 years at the typical cell, marked at the edge: undated DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C28 / 22–3128 / 22–3028 / 24–3127 / 25–3227 / 24–3126 / 21–3025 / 21–3025 / 21–3126 / 23–3226 / 24–3427 / 24–3428 / 23–32
Night °C25 / 19–2625 / 19–2625 / 21–2624 / 21–2623 / 20–2622 / 17–2521 / 16–2621 / 17–2522 / 19–2523 / 21–2524 / 21–2625 / 20–26
Rain mm288 / 42–454302 / 47–451247 / 49–394147 / 61–313128 / 15–23178 / 7–38154 / 4–37541 / 0–42233 / 3–32248 / 17–19592 / 53–188185 / 48–270
DLI38 / 24–4336 / 27–3935 / 32–3833 / 30–3830 / 25–3628 / 22–3429 / 23–3733 / 28–3938 / 33–4242 / 31–4643 / 26–4641 / 22–45
RH %65 / 62–6866 / 63–6964 / 62–6863 / 58–6862 / 53–6862 / 50–6861 / 50–6861 / 53–6862 / 56–6762 / 58–6662 / 59–6764 / 61–67

Each figure is the median across the 382 grid cells holding the 746 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. Extremes and elevation were read at the typical cell 2251:6948 (-22.575, 167.425). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum 16.2 °C, 1st-percentile night 19.1 °C, 99th-percentile day 27.8 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Envelope: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 382 distinct grid cells holding the 746 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 2251:6948 (its coldest month's mean night nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell -22.50_167.500, lapse-corrected +32 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 34 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across every in-range record's cell, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeTaiwan, Borneo, Lesser Sunda Is., Maluku, Philippines, Sulawesi, New Guinea, Queensland, Western Australia, New Caledonia, Vanuatu
Kew's description“tree” · “wet tropical”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Map marker21.987, 120.821 · in the densest population, 224 records (30% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker and the climate envelope rest on all 758 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 595 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker in the same place. 386 records outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. 12 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km and stay on the map but off the climate.
The map markerthe map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 758 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) T R Shankar Raman, some rights reserved (CC BY) (4); (c) Caleb Catto, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); (c) Rohit Naniwadekar, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2).

Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Aglaia elaeagnoidea, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Plant Secondary Metabolites as Defense Tools against Herbivores for Sustainable Crop Protection
Pratap A. Divekar, N Srinivasa, Bhupendra Adinath Divekar, Rajeev Kumar (2022) · International Journal of Molecular Sciences
Biosynthesis of Flower-Shaped CuO Nanostructures and Their Photocatalytic and Antibacterial Activities
Hafsa Siddiqui, M.S. Qureshi, Fozia Z. Haque (2020) · Nano-Micro Letters
The Role of Informal Protected Areas in Maintaining Biodiversity in the Western Ghats of India
Shonil Bhagwat, C.G. Kushalappa, Paul H. Williams, Nick Brown (2005) · Ecology and Society
Bioactive Carboxymethyl Starch-Based Hydrogels Decorated with CuO Nanoparticles: Antioxidant and Antimicrobial Properties and Accelerated Wound Healing In Vivo
Zahra Abdollahi, Ehsan Nazarzadeh Zare‬, Fatemeh Salimi, Iran Goudarzi (2021) · International Journal of Molecular Sciences
Biofabrication of highly pure copper oxide nanoparticles using wheat seed extract and their catalytic activity: A mechanistic approach
Foad Buazar, Sajjad Sweidi, Mohammad Badri, Feisal Kroushawi (2019) · Green Processing and Synthesis
Catalytic and recyclability properties of phytogenic copper oxide nanoparticles derived from Aglaia elaeagnoidea flower extract
G. Manjari, S. Saran, T. Arun, A. Vijaya Bhaskara Rao (2017) · Journal of Saudi Chemical Society
Exploring the therapeutic potential of Hibiscus rosa sinensis synthesized cobalt oxide (Co3O4-NPs) and magnesium oxide nanoparticles (MgO-NPs)
Kainat, Muhammad Aslam Khan, Farhad Ali, Shah Faisal (2021) · Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences
Biogenic ZnO/CuO/Fe2O3 Nanocomposite: A Groundbreaking Approach for Enhanced Degradation Capabilities and Reusability in Dye Removal Applications
Abdelghani Serouti, Laouini Salah Eddine, Souhaila Meneceur, Gamil Gamal Hasan (2023) · Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering
Biogenic fabrication of nanomaterials from flower-based chemical compounds, characterization and their various applications: A review
Rakesh Kumar Bachheti, Alemu Fikadu, Archana Bachheti, Azamal Husen (2020) · Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences

Similar habitat climate the 6 species whose habitat climate is nearest this one's: mean day and night, month by month, and rain on a log scale, in calendar order, so a habitat with the same seasons six months out is far, not near. Nothing else counts: not range, not family.

Other Aglaia 1 in the reference

History & registers

Where this page came from built 2026-09-20 · dossier v2 · node
gbif.species answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-20 (offline re-derivation; the backbone was not asked)
gbif.synonyms answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-20 (offline re-derivation; the backbone was not asked)
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wcvp.distribution answered
gbif.occurrences answeredGBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.3h4zam
climate answered
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Every upstream is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, or refused. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 59 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.