Aglaia spectabilis is a species of tree in the family Meliaceae, found from the Santa Cruz Islands in the southwest Pacific to Queensland (Australia), Southeast Asia, Yunnan (Zhōngguó/China) and the Indian subcontinent.

When a blaze, a cut on the trunk to reveal inner bark and wood, is made there is usually quite obvious but meagre milky exudate from the fine layers, with a faint odour of incense often apparent.

Reddish-brown to pale-brown stellate hairs of scales densely cover the twigs, petioles, rachis, petiolules, inflorescences, infructescences, calyxes, and outside of petals and fruits.

The flowers are small; some 2-7 by 2-6 mm in size; lobes of the calyx are rounded at the apex with their outer surface densely clothed in stellate hairs; the 3 pinkish-yellow petals are partially clothed; about 9 stamens; cup-shaped staminal tube roughly 3mm long, 2.5mm wide; protruding beyond the aperture are 6 anthers.

[6] They were "standing on the shoulders" of the Dutch botanist Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel (1811–71), an expert on Malesian flora, who published his species Amoora spectablis in 1868 in the journal Annales Musei Botanici Lugduno-Batavi (Amsterdam).

[2] Countries and regions in which the species occurs are: Solomon Islands (including Santa Cruz Islands); Papua Niugini (Bougainville, Bismarck Archipelago, Eastern New Guinea); Australia (Cape York from the Rocky River east of Coen north to Lockerbie Scrub); Indonesia (West Papua, Nusa Tenggara, Sulawesi, Kalimantan, Sumatra); Philippines; Malaysia (Sabah [widespread], Sarawak [uncommon], Peninsular Malaysia); Thailand; Cambodia; Laos; Vietnam; Zhōngguó/China (south and southeast Yunnan: Xichou, Xishuangbanna); Myanmar; India (including Andaman Islands, Assam); Bangladesh; Bhutan; East Himalaya.

[7][4] In Southeast Asia and Yunnan it grows in dense forests, abundant on red soils, often cultivated as a fruit or shade tree.

[4] Four large-gaped pigeons at the Crater Mountain Wildlife Management Area (Eastern Highlands Province, Papua Niugini), are known to eat the fruit of this species: Ptilinopus superbus (Superb Fruit-Dove), Ducula rufigaster (Purple-tailed Imperial-Pigeon), D. zoeae (Zoe Imperial-Pigeon), Gymnophaps albertisii (Papuan Mountain-Pigeon).

Seeds on the floor below the trees are heavily predated on by three mammals: Hystrix brachyura (Malayan porcupine), Maxomys surifer (red spiny rat), and C. finlaysonii.

The Pakke Wildlife Sanctuary, in Arunachal Pradesh, northeastern India, has tropical semi-evergreen rainforest, A. spectabilis is an emergent tree, growing up to 40m tall.

Investigating the hypothesis of Kitamura et al.[10] that seed size influences which frugivores eat fruit and how dispersal happens, various trees were watched.

The village of Jayanti is in the Buxa Tiger Reserve (West Bengal), eastern India), and is surrounded by a forest dominated by Shorea robusta.

[1] The Bangni people of East Kameng District, Arunachal Pradesh, northeast India, eat the raw fruit in their ethnomedicine to give relief from cough.

In West Bengal's Buxa Tiger Reserve, the villagers living there harvest lali fruit to use for decorative purposes in the months of February and March.