Aglaia rimosa
Description
Shrub or tree, 2–30 m high.
Outer bark dark brown to greenish- grey, scaly, with small lenticels, c. 2 mm thick; middle bark green; inner bark pink to dull red, with white latex.
Leaves 30–70 cm long, 22–50 cm wide, petiole 7–26 cm; petiole, rachis and petiolules with few to densely covered with scales like those on the twigs.
Flowers (1.1–)1.5–2.2(–2.5) mm long, (1.1–)1.7–2.2 mm wide; pedicel (0.3–)0.5–0.7 mm to articulation, subtending branchlet 1–1.5 mm, with few to densely covered with peltate scales.
Petals 4 or 5, white to red, pale yellowish- brown when dry.
Staminal tube (0.6–)0.8–1.2(–1.5) mm long, (0.8–)1–1.6 mm wide, obovoid or cup-shaped, aperture 0.7–1 mm, shallowly lobed, anthers 5 (or 6), 0.4–0.5 mm long, 0.2–0.4 mm wide, narrowly ovoid, curved inwards, with pale yellow margins and dark brown centre, usually inserted about 2/3 up the tube but sometimes lower down, protruding and with the apices pointing towards the centre of the flower, stami- nal tube thickened (not in New Guinea) below and between the anthers so that each an- ther occupies a depression, with simple hairs often densely covering the lower part of the staminal tube and between the anthers and along the margins of the anthers.
Fruits 1.3 cm diam. (–1.5 cm in New Guinea), dull orange to brown, obovoid or sometimes ellipsoid with a beak up to 5 mm long and narrowed to a stipe up to 5 mm long, the pericarp thin, rigid and brittle when dry, densely covered with scales on the outside, green on the inside, with latex; locules 2, each containing 0 or 1 seed.
Seed surrounded by a translucent yellow aril.
Distribution
Asia-Temperate: Taiwan (Taiwan present), Asia-Tropical: Maluku (Maluku present); New Guinea present; Philippines (Philippines present); Sulawesi (Sulawesi present), New Britain present, New Ireland present
Taiwan; Malesia: Philippines, Celebes, Moluccas, New Guinea, New Britain andNew Ireland
Morphology
Aglaia rimosa has a characteristic indumentum on the vegetative parts of the plant. This indumentum and the woolly white indumentum or white deposit in the staminal tube bring together a wide diversity in leaflet size and shape. However, there appears to be no consistent characters upon which the group can be subdivided. The species as defined here is recognizable with the naked eye because of the shiny peltate scales which look like evenly distributed orange dots on the lower surfaces of the leaflets.