Aglaia spectabilis (Miq.) S.S.Jain & Bennet

Tree up to 40 m, rarely flowering at 8 m; bole up to 18 m, up to 150 cm in diam., with plank buttresses up to 200 cm high and up to 370 cm out. Bark greyish-white, pale yel-lowish-brown or brown, flaking in squarish scales up to 30 cm across, sometimes with large orange lenticels up to 3 mm in diam.; inner bark pink, reddish-orange or brown; sapwood pale brown, pink, white or magenta; latex white. Branches ascending. Twigs stout, sometimes more than 1 cm in diam., densely covered with reddish-brown or pale brown stellate hairs or scales, or peltate scales which have a fimbriate margin, with white latex. Leaves imparipinnate in dense spirals, the leaf bases almost overlapping, 50–135 cm long, 28–70 cm wide; petiole 14–25 cm, flattened on the adaxial side, petiole, rachis and petiolules with indumentum like the twigs. Leaflets (3–)11–21, 8–40 by 2.5–12.5 (–17) cm, coriaceous, acuminate at apex, rounded at the asymmetrical base, upper sur-face rugulose and sometimes pitted, lower surface pitted, with few to densely covered with pale brown or reddish-brown stellate hairs and scales on the midrib and a few on or occasionally densely covering the lateral veins and surface of the lamina, sometimes with a few darker peltate scales which have a fimbriate margin scattered on the rest of that surface; veins 9–19 on each side of the midrib, reticulation subprominent on lower surface; petiolules 8–20 mm. Inflorescence up to 50 cm long and 30 cm wide; peduncle up to 18 cm, peduncle, rachis and branches stout, with indumentum like the twigs. Male flowers 2–5 mm long and 2–3 mm wide; female flowers up to 7 mm long and up to 6 mm wide; pedicels up to 3 mm, with stellate hairs like those on the twigs. Calyx usually dense-ly covered with stellate hairs on the outside. Petals 3, without or with numerous scales on the outside. Staminal tube slightly shorter than the corolla, cup-shaped; anthers (5 or) 6(–10), with about 1/4 of their length protruding beyond the aperture, sometimes with a few simple or forked hairs. Infructescence up to 13 cm long. Fruits 6–9 cm long and 5.5–9 cm wide, subglobose or obovoid, brown, red or yellow, densely covered with reddish-brown or pale yellowish-brown stellate hairs; pericarp up to 1 cm thick, with white latex, shiny reddish-brown inside. Locules 3 (or 4), each containing 0 or 1 seed. Seeds with aril 3.5–5 cm long and 2–2.7 cm wide, 1.5–2.2 cm thick; the aril entire, 2–4 mm thick, with a red, orange-red, yellow or white skin.

An upper canopy tree in secondary forest, riverine forest, primary forest, alluvial flats, coastal swamp and along the seashore; on sandy clay, sand, loam, sandstone, alluvial, coral; at elevations from sea level up to 650 metres.

UsesThe timber is used for furniture and decorative work to the east of the Bay of Bengal and the seeds are said to yield a brown oil in Tonkin [ Burkill Dict. Econ. Prod. Malay Peninsula 1935 137 under Amoora gigantea Pierre and Amoora wal-lichii ].secondary forest0-650 m riverine forest0-650 m primary forest0-650 m alluvial flats0-650 m coastal swamp0-650 m along the seashore0-650 m sandy clay0-650 m sand0-650 m loam0-650 m sandstone0-650 m alluvial0-650 m coral0-650 m

Plants are grown from fresh seed.