Aglaia rimosa (Blanco) Merr.

Shrub or tree, 2–30 m high. Bole 5–52 cm in diam. with buttresses upwards up to 50 cm, outwards up to 1 m, and up to 3 cm thick. Outer bark dark brown to greenish-grey, scaly, with small lenticels, c. 2 mm thick; middle bark green; inner bark pink to dull red, with white latex. Sapwood white to orange-yellow; heartwood red-brown. Twigs densely covered with peltate scales which are radiate and have a dark orange brown or dark reddish-brown centre with a paler margin, the margin irregular, entire or ragged (often fimbriate in New Guinea); the scales variable in size on any one plant, 0.15–0.3 mm in diam., the largest being on the apical bud. Leaves 30–70 cm long, 22–50 cm wide, petiole 7–26 cm; petiole, rachis and petiolules with few to densely covered with scales like those on the twigs. Leaflets (3–)9–11(–15), 5.5–23 by 1.5–8 cm (–10 cm wide in New Guinea), acuminate at apex, rounded or cuneate at the asym-metrical base; dark glossy green on upper surface and dull pale green on lower surface when fresh, orange, orange-brown, orange-green or pale green when dry, sometimes pitted on upper and lower surfaces, often rugulose on upper surface, with scales like those on the twigs scattered or numerous on the lower leaflet surface, with a few darker scales interspersed, numerous on to densely covering the midrib below, numerous on upper leaflet surface of young leaves, deciduous; veins 7–17(–20 in New Guinea) on each sde, reticulation rarely subprominent; petiolules 0.5–2(–25) mm. Male inflores-cence 13–36 cm long, 10–33 cm wide, peduncle c. 1.5 cm. Female inflorescence 6 cm long, 5 cm wide, peduncle c. 1 mm, branches with few to densely covered with peltate scales like those on the twigs. Flowers (1.1–)1.5–2.2(–2.5) mm long, (1.1–)1.7–2.2 mm wide; pedicel (0.3–)0.5–0.7 mm to articulation, subtending branchlet 1–1.5 mm, with few to densely covered with peltate scales. Calyx usually densely covered on the outside; with scales like those on the twigs, sometimes with few or no scales, or with scales only near the junction with the pedicel. Petals 4 or 5, white to red, pale yellowish-brown when dry. Staminal tube (0.6–)0.8–1.2(–1.5) mm long, (0.8–)1–1.6 mm wide, obovoid or cup-shaped, aperture 0.7–1 mm, shallowly lobed, anthers 5 (or 6), 0.4–0.5 mm long, 0.2–0.4 mm wide, narrowly ovoid, curved inwards, with pale yellow margins and dark brown centre, usually inserted about 2/3 up the tube but sometimes lower down, protruding and with the apices pointing towards the centre of the flower, stami-nal tube thickened (not in New Guinea) below and between the anthers so that each an-ther occupies a depression, with simple hairs often densely covering the lower part of the staminal tube and between the anthers and along the margins of the anthers. Infruc-tescence 8–36 cm long, 13 cm wide, peduncle up to 8 cm, densely covered with scales like those on the twigs. Fruits 1.3 cm diam. (–1.5 cm in New Guinea), dull orange to brown, obovoid or sometimes ellipsoid with a beak up to 5 mm long and narrowed to a stipe up to 5 mm long, the pericarp thin, rigid and brittle when dry, densely covered with scales on the outside, green on the inside, with latex; locules 2, each containing 0 or 1 seed. Seed surrounded by a translucent yellow aril.

It is a tropical plant. It is found throughout the country of the Philippines especially in the northern part of Luzon. It is in forests at low and medium altitudes. It can be near the seashore.

The fruit are eaten raw.

Can be grown by seedlings.