Aglaia teysmanniana (Miq.) Miq.

Tree up to 15 m, with rounded crown. Bole up to 50 cm in circumference. Bark greyish-brown or pale brown with longitudinal cracks and lenticels; inner bark dark brown; sapwood pale yellowish-brown; latex white. Twigs slender, densely covered with pale yellowish-brown stellate hairs which have arms up to 1.5 mm long. Leaves imparipinnate, up to 60 cm long and 50 cm wide; petiole up to 9.5 cm long, petiole, rachis and petiolules densely covered with stellate hairs like those on the twigs. Leaflets (l–)5–9, 4.8–25 by 2–8.2 cm, acuminate or shortly caudate at apex, cuneate or round-ed at the asymmetrical base, densely covered with pale yellow stellate hairs on the mid-rib and numerous on the rest of the lower surface where they are often deciduous; veins 9–21 on each side of the midrib, petiolules up to 10(–20) mm. Inflorescence up to 15 cm long and 15 cm wide; peduncle c. 10 mm, peduncle, rachis, branches and pedicels rather angular and longitudinally ridged with numerous pale yellowish-brown stellate scales or hairs with short arms. Flowers 1.5–2 mm in diam., subglobose; pedicels up to 2 mm. Calyx densely covered with scales like those on the branches on the outer sur-face, shallowly divided into 4 or 5 rounded lobes. Petals 3–5, glabrous, aestivation im-bricate or quincuncial. Staminal tube shorter than the corolla, cup-shaped with the apical margin incurved; anthers (6) 7(–9), about half the length of the tube, ellipsoid, just pro-truding beyond the aperture. Infructescence with 1–4 fruits, up to 10 cm long and 6 cm wide; peduncle up to 6 cm, the peduncle, rachis, branches and fruit-stalks with longitu-dinal ridges and hairs like the twigs. Fruits 1–2.2 cm long, 1.3–2 cm wide, pink, subglobose, dehiscing loculicidally into 3, pericarp with shallow longitudinal wrinkles, and densely covered with pale brown stellate scales, c. 2 mm thick, white, turning pink on exposure to air, containing some latex; innermost layer of the pericarp in each locule a detachable membrane surrounding the seed; locules 3. Seeds 1–3, (0.7–) 1.1–1,4 cm long, (0.4–)0.6–0.9 cm wide, obovoid; aril orange or red, the edges almost or quite meeting on the antiraphe side.

Evergreen forest, primary forest and the more open, secondary formations; usually near streams; growing on limestones, sandy soils, clays and loams; at elevations up to 1,670 metres.

The fleshy later around the seed is eaten.

Can be grown by seedlings.