Aglaia densisquama
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Description
Tree up to 20 m.
Bark smooth, with longitudinal cracks.
Leaves imparipinnate, up to 48 cm long and 44 cm wide; petiole 8– 16 cm, petiole, rachis and petiolules densely covered with scales like those on the twigs.
Flowers c. 3 mm long and 3–4 mm wide; pedicels c. 1.5 mm, the pedicels and calyx densely covered with scales like those on the twigs.
Petals 5, with a few scales like those on the twigs on the outer surface.
Staminal tube 1.5–1.7 mm long and 2.2–2.5 mm wide, depressed-globose, the aperture c. 0.7 mm in diam.; anthers 5, 0.5–0.8 mm long and 0.4–0.5 mm wide, ovoid, inserted about 2/3 of the way up the staminal tube and just protruding through the aperture, the staminal tube thick and fleshy below and between the anthers.
Fruits up to 5 cm long and 2 cm wide, narrowly ellipsoid, ovoid or obovoid with a long narrow beak up to 1.5 cm long and a short broad stipe up to 5 mm long; the pericarp densely covered with scales like those on the twigs and without latex.
Taxonomy
Aglaia densisquama resembles A. squamulosa but the indumentum is darker in colour and the leaflet margin is strongly recurved. In A. densisquama the dense indu- mentum of bright, shiny, dark reddish-brown peltate scales on the lower surface of the leaflet contrasts with the pale yellowish-green upper surface of the leaflet. The midrib and lateral veins are markedly depressed on the upper surface and the lateral veins anas- tomose and appear as conspicuous loops near the margins of the leaflets. The leaflets have a long, caudate apex and the fruits are spindle-shaped with a long, narrow beak.