English Lao
Habitat and ecology Distribution
| Diagnostic characters : | Evergreen trees, bark fissured, branches alternately horizontal, branchlets glabrous. Exudate yellow. Leaves simple opposite, glabrous margin entire. Stipules absent. Flowers unisexual. Fruit a globose berry. |
| Habit : | Tree to 12 m. |
| Trunk & bark : | Bark smooth becoming fissured with age, inner-bark reddish. |
| Branches and branchlets or twigs : | Branches alternately horizontal, glabrous. |
| Exudates : | Exudate yellow latex. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, elliptic to elliptic-oblong, glabrous, apex acute, base acute to attenuate, margin entire. Primary vein single, secondary and tertiary veins obscure. Petiole c. 1 cm glabrous. Stipules absent. |
| Inflorescences or flowers : | Flowers mostly axillary, unisexual on different trees, female red, male yellowish. |
| Fruits : | A globose berry, smooth. |