English Lao
Botanical descriptions Habitat and ecology Distribution
| Diagnostic characters : | Evergreen trees, bark smooth. Leaves simple, alternate, base asymmetrical. Flowers white, style attached to side of ovary. Fruit a fleshy drupe. Seed 1. |
| Habit : | Small, evergreen tree up to 15 m tall. |
| Trunk & bark : | Bole straight. Bark smooth, thin, dark brown. |
| Branches and branchlets or twigs : | Twigs terete, glabrous. |
| Exudates : | Exudate absent. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate and spiral, glabrous, narrowly ovate or elliptic, apex acute, base slightly asymmetric. Midrib flat above, secondary veins oblique, widely parallel, tertiary veins reticulate. Stipules absent. |
| Inflorescences or flowers : | Flowers white arranged in an inflorescence, terminal or axillary, bisexual, pedicel shorter than 0.5 cm long. |
| Fruits : | Fruit 0.7 - 1 cm, drupe, with scarlet appendage at base, not splitting. |
| Seeds : | Seed 1. |