Aglaia rufinervis (Blume) Bentv.

Tree up to 15 m with a small, sometimes open crown. Bole up to 10 m, up to 50 cm in circumference. Bark smooth, brown or grey, with minute vertical cracks; inner bark pale orange-brown; sap wood pale orange-brown or reddish-brown; latex white. Twigs stout, densely covered with dark brown stellate hairs. Leaves imparipinnate, up to 100 cm long and 40 cm wide; petiole up to 12 cm, petiole, rachis and petiolules with indu-mentum like the twigs. Leaflets 15–19, 6–28.5 by 3–8 cm, shortly caudate at apex, rounded or cuneate at the asymmetrical base, upper surface rugulose and pitted, lower surface with numerous pits and densely covered with reddish-brown stellate scales on the midrib and brown or pale brown stellate scales and hairs evenly scattered on lower surface; veins 9–18 on each side of the midrib, reticulation visible on lower surface; petiolules up to 15(–30) mm. Male inflorescence up to 80 cm long and 75 cm wide, peduncle, rachis and branches densely covered with reddish-brown stellate scales, the ultimate branches and pedicels with numerous to densely covered with scales. Flowers c. 1.2 mm long and 1.1–1.2 mm wide, subglobose or slightly longer than broad, fra-grant; pedicel 0.3–1 mm. Calyx with few to densely covered with reddish-brown stel-late scales on the outer surface. Petals 5. Staminal tube c. 0.9 mm long and 0.8 mm wide, shorter than the petals, obovoid, aperture c. 0.3 mm, shallowly 5-lobed, with pale yellow stellate hairs on the inner surface; anthers 5, c. 0.5 mm long and 0.3 mm wide:, obovoid, with pale yellow stellate hairs, inserted in the upper half of the tube and just protruding through the aperture. Infructescence up to 16 cm long and wide. Fruits up to 20 cm in diam., subglobose, brown or orange, densely covered with dark brown or orange-brown stellate hairs and scales on the outside; fruitstalks up to 2 mm. Locule 1, containing 1 seed; aril translucent, sour; testa dark brown.

It is a tropical plant. It grows in evergreen forest usually near streams. In southern Thailand it grows between 30-80 m above sea level.