Aglaia ceramica (Miq.) Pannell

Small tree up to 3 m, with few branches; stem and twigs pale brown, densely covered with orange brown stellate hairs near the apex. Leaves up to 80 cm long and 70 cm wide; petiole 6–16 cm, petiole, rachis and branches densely covered with hairs like those on the twigs. Leaflets 7–9, 10.5–35 by 5–14.5 cm, often bluish–green below when dry, acuminate at apex, rounded or cuneate at the base; with orange–brown stellate hairs nu-merous on or densely covering the midrib below, numerous on the lower leaflet surface and interspersed with paler stellate hairs which have fewer arms, glabrescent; veins 8–19 on each side of the midrib; petiolules up to 10(–30) mm. Male inflorescence in the axils of existing or fallen leaves, 16–24 cm long, 4–32 cm wide, with few branches. Male flowers 1.5 mm long and wide; pedicels 1.5 mm, the pedicel and calyx densely covered with stellate hairs or scales. Petals 5. Staminal tube 0.7 mm long, cup-shaped, aperture 0.8 mm wide, shallowly lobed; anthers 5, 0.6 mm long and 0.4 mm wide, inserted at the base of the tube. Female inflorescence in the axils of fallen leaves, up to 1 cm long, with branches from the base and up to 13 flowers. Female flowers 3 mm long, 2.8 mm wide; pedicels 0.5 mm. Petals 5. Staminal tube 1.5 mm long and wide, cup-shaped with the margin incurved and shallowly lobed, with a few simple white hairs inside; anthers 5, 0.5 mm long, 0.6 mm wide, dark brown with pale margins when dry; other-wise like the male. Infructescence c. 2 cm long and 3 cm wide, borne on the stem in the axils of about 6 fallen leaves; the first fruits maturing at the same time as flowers on the more distal inflorescences. Fruits c. 1.5 cm long and 0.8 cm wide, yellow, obovoid, densely covered with orange brown peltate scales which have a fimbriate margin and stellate hairs on the outside; inner pericarp white. Seeds 3; aril white, edible and rather sweet; testa blackish-green.

An understorey plant in dense, primary forests, sometimes on limestone; at elevations from 200-650 metres.

The thin fleshy layer around the seeds is eaten.

Can be grown by seedlings.