Aglaia hiernii King

Tree up to 30 m, with broad rounded crown. Bole up to 100 cm in circumference. Bark greenish-brown or grey with fine longitudinal lines of lenticels; inner bark green; sapwood green, pink, pale yellow or white; latex white. Branches ascending or patent. Twigs fairly stout, densely covered with dark reddish-brown stellate hairs with arms up to 1 mm long. Leaves imparipinnate, up to 70 cm long and 60 cm wide; petiole up to 18 cm, rachis, petiole and petiolules densely covered with stellate hairs like those on the twigs. Leaflets (7–)9(–13), 7–30 by 4–11 cm, yellowish-green when young, recurved at the margin for up to 1 cm when dry, shortly caudate at apex, rounded at the base, when young the upper surface pale brown stellate and darker reddish-brown stellate hairs densely covering the midrib, numerous on the lateral veins and a few interspersed with stellate scales on the upper surface, both deciduous before maturity, lower surface with reddish-brown stellate hairs which have arms up to 1 mm long densely covering the midrib and numerous on the surface with the arms of adjacent hairs usually overlap-ping, interspersed with numerous pale brown stellate scales or hairs which have few as-cending arms; veins 12–25 on each side of the midrib; petiolules up to 10(–25) mm. In-florescence up to 35 cm long and wide; peduncle up to 5 cm, the peduncle, rachis and branches with indumentum like the twigs, the final branches up to 7 mm long and tight-ly packed with sessile flowers. Flowers c. 1 mm in diam. Calyx glabrous or with occa-sional stellate scales (in Borneo indumentum dense). Petals 5. Staminal tube shorter than the corolla, cup-shaped with the apical margin incurved leaving a small aperture; anthers 5, ovoid, inserted just below the margin of the tube, apices with pale stellate hairs which cover the aperture of the tube. Infructescence c. 35 cm long, with few fruits, peduncle, rachis and branches stout. Fruits 5 cm long and 3.5 cm wide, obovoid or ellipsoid, brown or yellow; pericarp 2–4 mm thick, woody when dry and densely covered with stellate hairs. or scales on the outside. Locule 1, containing 1 seed. Seed with aril c. 2.9 cm long, 1.9 cm wide and 1.7 cm through; aril c. 1.5 mm thick, translucent, pale orange, sweet and edible.

Dense, primary forests; both recent and older, more open secondary formations; growing on granite, sand, sandstone, clay and clay-loam; at elevations from 20-1,700 metres.

The layer of orange flesh around the seed is sweet and edible.

Can be grown by seedlings.