Aglaia cremea
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Description
Tree 4-13 m high.
Outer bark light brown; inner bark yellow or greenish-yellow, latex white.
Leaves 17-40 cm long, 13-30 cm wide, petiole 2.5-6 cm; petiole, rachis and petiolules with numerous scales like those on the twigs.
Inflorescences 2.5-16 cm long, 4-13 cm wide; peduncle, rachis and branches with few pale brown peltate scales which have a fimbriate margin.
Flower 1.5-2 mm long and wide, pedicels 0.5-1 mm, without or with a few stellate hairs.
Petals 5.
Staminal tube 0.5-1 mm long, 1.2-2 mm wide, cup-shaped with the margin incurved, aperture 0.8-1.3 mm across with a lobed margin, anthers inserted just inside the margin or about a third of the way down the tube, protruding and pointing towards the centre of the flower.
Fruits 1-2.5 cm long, obovoid, brownish green, densely covered with reddish-brown peltate scales which have a short fimbriate margin; locule 1.
Seed 1, ?with a thin gelatinous aril.