Description

Flowers are yellowish, about 1.5 centimeters long, and borne in fairly small, rounded clusters. The fruit is pendant and orange-red, containing a single seed and two locules across which it splits upon opening, slightly obovoid or broadly ellipsoid, and about 1.5 centimeters long. Seeds are ovoid compressed, about 7.5 millimeters long. – Classified as “vulnerable” in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. (7) Constituents – The species is considered a source of agarwood. – Agarwood is the resinous hardwood that is formed in Aquilaria and Gyrinop trees when they are invaded by mold. – The production of resinous compounds is associated with wounding by insects that probably assist fungal invasion.