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Aglaia elliptica

species of plant

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ4692773 ↗
Source-derived summary

Aglaia elliptica is a species of flowering plant in the family Meliaceae. It is a tree native to Brunei, Indonesia (Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and the Lesser Sunda Islands), Malaysia (Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah, and Sarawak), Myanmar, the Philippines, and Thailand.

Two subspecies are accepted:

Aglaia elliptica subsp. clementis (Merr.) Pannell (synonym Aglaia clementis Merr.) – Borneo and Sulawesi

Aglaia elliptica subsp. elliptica – Borneo, Java, Lesser Sunda Islands, Peninsular Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatra, and Thailand

The species was first described by Carl Ludwig Blume in 1825.

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“Aglaia elliptica” enters the record as species of plant. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Aglaia, elliptica and species can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA sound reference starting point where classification, measurement and the date of the underlying evidence remain visible. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1825—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Aglaia, elliptica and species.
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The date and method of observation matter as much as the stated conclusion, especially where classification or consensus has changed. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4692773. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1825.

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This entry incorporates text from “Aglaia elliptica” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.