English Lao
Botanical descriptions Habitat and ecology Distribution
| Diagnostic characters : | Deciduous or evergreen trees, crushed parts smelling of citronella. Leaves glaucous below. Stipules absent. Flowers unisexual on separate trees in axillary umbels. Fruit a fleshy drupe, black at maturity. |
| Habit : | Deciduous or semi-evergreen tree up to 12 m tall. |
| Trunk & bark : | Bole straight, bole greyish-black, smooth, lenticellate. |
| Branches and branchlets or twigs : | Twigs terete, glabrous. |
| Exudates : | Exudate absent. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate and spiral, glabrous, glaucous below, narrowly ovate or lanceolate, apex acuminate, base acute, margin entire. Primary vein single, secondary veins obtuse, tertiary veins reticulate. Stipules absent. |
| Inflorescences or flowers : | Flowers cream, unisexual on different plant, arranged in a 4--6-flowered in axillary umbels, globose inflorescence, usually flowering when deciduous. Pedicels up to 3 mm long. |
| Fruits : | Fruit fleshy drupe, up to 0.7 cm long, black at maturity. |
| Seeds : | Seed 1. |