Aglaia eximia Miq.

Tree up to 15 m, with a rounded crown. Bole up to 10 m. Outer bark smooth, grey-ish-brown with some lenticels in longitudinal rows; inner bark brown or pale brown; sapwood pale yellow or pale brown, sometimes tinged with pink; latex white. Twigs stout, densely covered with brown stellate scales. Leaves imparipinnate, at least up to 135 cm long and 50 cm wide; petiole up to 25 cm long, petiole, rachis and petiolules with scales like the twigs. Leaflets 11–21, 6–42(–58) by 2–11(–16) cm, acuminate at the apex, usually rounded at the asymmetrical subcordate base but the terminal leaflet usually cuneate, lower surface thickly covered with white and pale brown stellate scales, often with some brown stellate hairs interspersed; veins 10–22(–29) on each side of the midrib; petiolules up to 5 mm on lateral leaflets, up to 15(–50) mm on terminal leaflet. Inflorescence up to 40 cm long and 28 cm wide, peduncle up to 10 cm, peduncle, rachis and branches with surface and indumentum like the twigs. Flowers sessile, up to 2 mm in diam. Calyx densely covered with brown stellate hairs. Petals 5. Staminal tube sometimes shallowly cup-shaped with the rim incurved, usually ellipsoid with the aperture up to 0.5 mm in diam. and obscurely 5-lobed; anthers almost as long as the tube, ovoid, inserted near the bottom of the tube, usually included but sometimes protruding through the pore. Infructescence up to 32 cm long and 16 cm wide; peduncle up to 10 cm. Fruits up to 3 cm long, 2.2 cm wide, ellipsoid or subglobose, grey or brown; pericarp thin, densely covered with reddish-brown stellate scales or peltate scales which have a fim-briate margin on the outside, containing white latex; locules 1–3, each containing 1 seed. Seed with a thin aril; the aril white, pale yellow or pink.

Primary forests and the more open, secondary formations; sometimes growing on limestone; at elevations from near sea level to 2,000 metres.

The aril or fleshy layer around the seed is eaten.

Plants can be grown by seed.