Aglaia brownii Pannell

Small tree 2–12 m. Bark pale brown or grey; sapwood white. Twigs slender, densely covered with pale brown stellate scales and hairs. Leaves imparipinnate or occasionally trifoliolate, 15–45 cm long, 12–40 cm wide; petiole 4–12 cm, petiole, rachis and petio-lules with indumentum like the twigs. Leaflets (3–)5–9, 4.5–20 by 1.5–8 cm, the leaflet margin sometimes strongly recurved (apparently when growing in dry conditions), the apex acuminate, cuneate or rounded at the slightly asymmetrical base, with pale brown stellate scales on the lower surface, densely covering the midrib, numerous else-where, sometimes interspersed with compact stellate hairs in which all the arms are usu-ally of similar length; veins 9–15 on each side of the midrib, reticulation often white or pale brown on the lower surface when dry; petiolules 3–10 mm. Inflorescence 7–20 cm long, 3–27 cm wide, in the axils of 1 to 3 leaves near the twig apex; peduncle 1–4 cm, peduncle, rachis and branches with indumentum like the twigs. Flowers c. 1 mm long, 1–1.5 mm wide, strongly perfumed; pedicels 0.5–2 mm, densely covered with pale brown stellate hairs. Calyx densely covered with pale brown stellate hairs on the outer surface. Petals 5. Staminal tube c. 0.5 mm long, cup-shaped, the apical margin shallowly 5-lobed; anthers (3–)5 (6), c. 0.4 mm long and wide, ovoid, brown with a pale yellow margin when dry, inserted inside the margin of the tube and pointing towards the centre of the flower, sometimes in New Guinea with numerous pale simple hairs on the margin of the staminal tube and on the anthers. Infructescence 9–19.5 cm long, 3–4 cm wide; peduncle 2–6.5 cm, peduncle, rachis and branches densely covered with hairs and scales like those on the twigs. Fruits c. 2 cm long and 1.5 cm wide, orange when ripe, obovoid or subglobose, indéhiscent, densely covered with hairs and scales like those on the twigs; pericarp thin, brittle when dry. Locules 2, each containing 1 seed.

Grows on dark brown organic soil, aeolian sands, stabilised dune or laterite. Found on rocks and dunes near the sea, monsoon forest on coastal dunes, fringing coastal woods, semi-deciduous notophyll vine forest at edge of beach close to mangroves and Eucalyptus forest.