Aglaia korthalsii Miq.

Tree up to 26 m. Bole up to 16 m; up to 70 cm in diam.; with triangular buttresses outwards up to 1.5 m with exposed roots beyond, upwards up to 2 m, bole fluted above. Bark pale to dark reddish-brown or pinkish-brown or orange brown, sometimes with coarse longitudinal fissures or rows of lenticels, flaking in large irregular roundish scales, exposing orange or yellowish-green bark beneath; inner bark pink, dark green-ish-pink or purplish-pink, fibrous; sapwood pale pink, pale yellow, yellow or white; latex white. Twigs with numerous to densely covered with shiny reddish-brown peltate scales which have a dark centre, becoming paler towards the margin or which are pale throughout, the margin irregular or shortly fimbriate, latex white. Leaves up to 40 cm long and 48 cm wide, obovate in outline; petiole 7–12 cm, petiole, rachis and petiolules with numerous scales like those on the twigs. Leaflets (3–)5(–7), 8–27(–36) by (2.5–) 3–8 cm, apex acuminate, usually rounded but sometimes cuneate at the asymmetrical base; with scales like those on the twigs few on the upper surface and scattered or nu-merous on the lower surface at fairly regular intervals, sometimes with faint reddish-brown pits; veins 10–25 on each side of the midrib; petiolules usually 5–10(-30) mm. Inflorescences borne in leaf axils or on old wood of the twigs. Male inflorescence up to 30 cm long and wide; peduncle 0.5–2 cm, peduncle, rachis and branches with numer-ous to densely covered with scales like those on the twigs. Female inflorescence like the male but often much smaller, with fewer branches and flowers. Flower c. 1.5–2 mm long and 1.6–2.5 mm wide; pedicel 0.8–3 mm; calyx with few to numerous peltate scales like those on the twigs, divided almost to the base into 5 rounded lobes which have fimbriate margins. Petals 5. Staminal tube 0.8 mm long, 1.9 mm wide, obovoid or cup-shaped with the apical margin incurved and shallowly 5-lobed; anthers 5, c. 0.4 mm long, ovoid, inserted inside the rim of the tube, protruding and pointing towards the centre of the flower. Infructescence up to 17 cm long and 14 cm wide, with up to 15 fruits; peduncle 1–2 cm, the peduncle, rachis and branches with numerous scales like those on the twigs. Fruits 2–4 cm long, 1–3.5(–5) cm wide, ellipsoid or subglobose, orange, densely covered with orange-brown peltate scales which have a fimbriate margin on the outside and with small longitudinal wrinkles, the pericarp indehiscent with a dehiscence line running longitudinally around the fruit along which the ripe fruit breaks open when pressure is applied, the pericarp 1–10 mm thick, fibrous and flexible, with some white latex, the inner surface, without hairs or scales, shiny orange; fruitstalks 1–2 cm. Locules 2 (or 3), each containing 0 or 1 seed, septum persistent, up to 0.5 mm thick, membraneous. Seeds 1.5–2 cm long, 1–1.5 cm wide, 0.8 mm through, ellip-soid, with inner surfaces flattened; aril c. 2 mm thick, translucent yellow or pale orange, juicy or gelatinous, edible, sweet or rather bitter tasting, firmly attached to the testa es-pecially at the hilum and main antiraphe vascular bundle, usually not quite complete on the antiraphe side, the seed coat with branched venation. 2n = 84 [Pannell, l.c. (1992) 21].

A mid-canopy tree in undisturbed mixed dipterocarp to sub-montane forests at elevations up to 1,400 metres. Usually on alluvial sites, but also common on hillsides and ridges. On sandy to clay soils, but also common on or near limestone.

UsesEdible fruits. Timber used for house poles.

Can be grown by seedlings.