Aglaia coriacea Korth. ex Miq.

Small tree up to 5 m, usually unbranched, occasionally with 1 or 2 branches in the upper part of the tree. Bole up to 10 cm in circumference. Bark brown with green and grey patches, with longitudinal and transverse cracks and densely covered with reddish-brown stellate hairs at the apex; inner bark dark pinkish-red; sapwood slightly paler than inner bark; heartwood pale pinkish-red or yellowish-brown. Leaves imparipinnate, up to 120 cm long and 90 cm wide; petiole up to 35 cm, patent, the rachis descending, peti-ole, rachis and petiolules densely covered with often deciduous reddish-brown stellate hairs which have a dense cluster of short arms and a few up to 0.5 mm long. Leaflets 7–15, 13–43 by 4–9 cm, dark glossy green above, paler below, coriaceous, recurved at margin, acuminate at apex, narrowed to a shortly cuneate or rounded sometimes asymmetrical base, with reddish-brown stellate hairs which are numerous on upper sur-face when young but deciduous before maturity, usually densely covering and conspic-uous on the midrib on lower surface (but sometimes sparse) and numerous on the lower surface when young but usually deciduous before maturity; veins 11–33 on each side of the midrib; petiolules 1–35 mm. Inflorescence up to 6 cm long and wide, usually in the axils of the leaves, sometimes on the upper part of the stem below the lowest leaves; peduncle up to 1 cm, peduncle, rachis, branches, pedicels and calyx densely covered with reddish-brown stellate hairs. Flowers c. 2.5 cm long and 2 cm wide, obovoid; pedicels up to 2.5 mm long. Petals 5. Staminal tube about 3/4 the length of the corolla, obovoid, the aperture c. 0.6 mm in diam. and shallowly 5-lobed; anthers 5, about half the length of the staminal tube, ovoid, in the upper half of the tube and just protruding beyond the aperture. Infructescence with c. 6 fruits at different stages of ripening, tight-ly clustered at the end of a peduncle c. 9 cm long. Fruits 2.3–4 cm long, 1.8–3.5 cm wide, ellipsoid, brown, densely covered with dark brown stellate hairs like those on the twigs; pericarp 0.5–1 mm thick, leathery, inner surface white. Locules 1–3, septa dis-integrating in ripe fruit. Seeds 2–3.5 cm long, 1.5–2 cm wide with inner surfaces flat-tened; aril 0.5–1 mm thick, the flesh translucent, white, sweet and juicy.

It is a tropical plant. It grows in forests up to 270 m above sea level.

Can be grown by seedlings.