Aglaia rufibarbis Ridl.

Tree up to 10 m, with an ovoid crown. Bole up to 4 m, up to 21 cm in circumference. Bark usually grey and pale brown, sometimes dark brown with dark grey patches, with longitudinal cracks; inner bark green, pale yellowish-brown or orange-brown, with longi-tudinal striations; sapwood pale yellowish-brown or orange-brown; latex white. Branches suberect, ascending or patent with the apical shoots ascending. Twigs slender, densely covered with reddish-brown stellate hairs which have arms up to 4 mm long. Leaves imparipinnate, up to 85 cm long and 65 cm wide; petiole 10–22 cm long, petiole, rachis and petiolules with indumentum like the twigs. Leaflets (5–)7–9, (4–)9–41 by (3–)4.5– 11.5 cm, acuminate or caudate at apex, tapering to a cuneate or subcordate, asymmetri-cal base, with stellate hairs like those on the twigs on both surfaces but more frequent on the lower surface, sometimes white on young leaves, interspersed with smaller paler hairs which have fewer arms; veins (7–)8–23 on each side of the midrib; petiolules 2–7 (–40) mm. Male inflorescence up to 40 cm long and wide, with bracts up to 3 cm long on the rachis and up to 1.5 cm on the branches, with numerous stellate hairs; peduncle up to 6 cm, peduncle, rachis and branches densely covered with hairs like those on the twigs. Male flowers minute, up to 1.2 mm in diam.; pedicels up to 2 mm, with numer-ous stellate hairs. Calyx with numerous stellate hairs. Petals 5 (or 6). Staminal tube nearly the length of the corolla, obovoid with a minute apical pore c. 0.2 mm across; anthers less than 1/4 the length of the tube, yellow when immature, brown at anthesis, turning black later, broadly ovoid, inserted in the uppermost 1/3 and included within the tube. Female inflorescence up to 6 cm long and wide, with fewer branches; pedun-cle up to 2 cm; the bracteoles more dense; female flowers fewer but slightly larger and arranged amongst the bracts, otherwise like the male. Infructescence with persistent bracts and up to 10 fruits. Young fruits c. 2 cm long and wide, subglobose, green, den-sely covered with often deciduous stellate hairs like those on the twigs, the longer arms often breaking off leaving a dense cluster of short arms; pericarp brittle, readily torn open, c. 1 mm thick, outer layer green, inner surface smooth, white and shiny. Locule 1, containing 1 seed.

It is a tropical plant. It grows between 100-250 m above sea level.

UsesTimber used for beams and fruit sweet and edible [ Burkill Dict. Econ. Prod Malay Penins. 1935 75 ].

Can be grown by seedlings.