English Lao
Botanical descriptions Habitat and ecology Distribution
| Diagnostic characters : | Evergreen trees, bark smooth or flaky. Leaves simple, alternate and distichous. Flowers white, axillary. |
| Habit : | Evergreen tree up to 12 m tall. |
| Trunk & bark : | Bole straight, creamy-brown, smooth. |
| Branches and branchlets or twigs : | Twigs terete, glabrous. |
| Exudates : | Exudate absent. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate and distichous, glabrous, elliptic, apex acute, base acute. Midrib more or less flat above, secondary veins obliques to the midrib, tertiary veins reticulate. Stipules absent. |
| Inflorescences or flowers : | Flowers white, arranged in few-flowered clusters, axillary or behind the leaves, bisexual, pedicels up to 3 mm long. |
| Fruits : | Fruit a drupe, up to 4 cm long, slightly fleshy, not splitting open. |
| Seeds : | Seed 1. |