English Lao
Botanical descriptions Habitat and ecology Distribution
| Diagnostic characters : | Evergreen trees, bole often fluted. Young twigs minute red-brown hairs. Exudate watery, pinkish-red. Leaves with scattered stellate hairs below, base with extra-floral nectaries on lamina below near petiole insertion. Flowers unisexual on different trees. Fruit a lobed capsule covered with red powdery glands. Seeds ovoid black with small red aril. |
| Habit : | Evergreen tree up to 12 m tall. |
| Trunk & bark : | Bole straight, often fluted, bark pale grey, smooth when young. |
| Branches and branchlets or twigs : | Twigs terete, glabrous or covered with minute red-brown hairs. |
| Exudates : | Exudate not found but could be watery, pinkish-red. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate and spiral, with minute red glandular hairs below, elliptic to narrowly ovate, apex acuminate, base acute with 2 glands, margin entire. 3 primary prominent basal veins present, midrib flat above, secondary veins oblique, widely parallel, tertiary veins horizontal. Stipules present, small, falling off early. |
| Inflorescences or flowers : | Flowers arranged in a many-flowered inflorescence, terminal, unisexual, on the same tree, pedicels up to 3 mm long. |
| Fruits : | Fruit up to 0.9 cm in diameter, capsule splitting into 3 sections, with powdery red glands. |
| Seeds : | Seeds 3, black covered by a small red aril. |