Aglaia samoensis A.Gray

Forest tree up to 7 m. Twigs densely covered with dark reddish-brown peltate scales which have a short fimbriate margin and some orange-brown scales which have a longer fimbriate margin interspersed. Leaves 19–55 cm long; petiole 4.5–11 cm, the petiole, rachis and petiolules densely covered with scales like those on the twigs. Leaflets (5–) 7–9(–13), 5.5–22(–29) by 2–8 cm, acuminate or almost caudate at the apex, rounded or cuneate at the slightly asymmetrical base, with few to numerous scales like those on the twigs on the midrib and scattered elsewhere and the younger leaflets with numerous pale almost stellate scales on the lower surface, usually glabrescent, but sometimes a few persisting on the older leaves; the lower surface with numerous small dark reddish– brown pits and the same but more faintly on the upper leaflet surface; veins 8–12 on each side of the midrib; petiolules up to 5 mm. Inflorescence up to 18 cm long and 22 cm wide; peduncle 0.5–2 cm, peduncle, rachis and branches with scales like those on the twigs, but with a greater portion of those with a longer fimbriate margin. Flowers 1–1.5 mm in diam.; pedicel 1–1.5 mm; pedicel and calyx densely covered with fimbri-ate peltate scales. Petals 5 (or 6). Staminal tube 0.75–1 mm long, obovoid, with few to numerous simple (occasionally stellate) white hairs on the inside, especially in the upper 2/3 of the tube; anthers c. 0.4 mm long and 0.3 mm wide, inserted inside the margin of the tube and protruding for about half their length, with some simple white hairs. Infruc-tescence up to 9.5 cm long and 8 cm wide, peduncle c. 2.5 cm, the peduncle, rachis and branches with indumentum like the inflorescence. Fruits 2–3.2 cm long and 1.5–2.5 cm wide, indehiscent, brown, red, orange or yellow, ellipsoid or subglobose when ripe, often asymmetrical when only one seed develops, obovoid when young; the pericarp thin, densely covered with reddish-brown peltate scales which have a fimbriate margin. Locules 2, each containing 0 or 1 seed which has a thin translucent aril.

Found in poorly to usually well-drained primary forest, secondary lowland forest, montane forest and on coral terraces; on limestone and clay; at elevations from sea level to 830 metres.

UsesRed timber-wood (Bougainville).

Can be grown by seedlings.