Aglaia tomentosa

Habit: Small tree

Trees, to 20 m high, bark pale reddish-brown or grey with green patch, with longitudinal cracks and lenticels in longitudinal rows, inner bark yellow, fibrous or granular; exudation white; branches ascending; branchlets covered with dense brown stellate hairs. Leaves imparipinnate, alternate, estipulate, rachis 13-34 mm long, stout, swollen at base, stellate-tomentose, leaflets 9-13, opposite or subopposite, estipellate; petiolule 3-10 mm, stout, tomentose, slightly grooved above, lamina 7.5-20 x 2.5-6 cm, oblong-lanceolate, elliptic or elliptic to oblanceolate, base oblique, cuneate or acute, apex acuminate or caudate-acuminate, margin entire, recurved when dry, coriaceous, glabrous above and tomentose beneath, lateral nerves 10-25 pairs, parallel, prominent, intercostae obscure. Flowers polygamodioecious, yellow, in axillary panicles; female inflorescence is smaller than male; peduncle tomentose like rachis; calyx densely covered with stellate hairs; lobes 5 acute or obtuse, margin ciliate; petals 5, yellow, subrotund or obovate, glabrous; staminal tube 1 mm long, slightly incurved and shallowly 5-lobed at the margin, anthers 5, broadly ovoid, inserted near the base or just below the margin of the tube, usually protruding; ovary superior, depressed globose, densely covered with stellate hairs, 1-celled, ovule one in each cell; stigma subglobose, longitudinally ridged, shiny. Fruit a capsule, 1.6-2.5 x 1.2-1.7 cm, yellow, subglobose, pyriform, tomentose, 1-2 loculed, seed 1, aril orange, red or brown, translucent and acidic.

Indomalaysia to Australia; in the Western Ghats- South Sahyadris.

Kerala: Idukki, Kollam, Palakkad, Thiruvananthapuram, Thrissur Tamil Nadu: Coimbatore, Dindigul, Nilgiri, Salem, Tiruchchirappalli, Tirunelveli, Viluppuram