English Lao
Botanical descriptions Habitat and ecology Distribution
| Diagnostic characters : | Evergreen trees, exudates absent. Leaves simple with apex caudate and margin glandular. Stipules absent. Flowers bisexual, axillary or pseudoterminal, greenish. Fruits a drupe, purplish. |
| Habit : | Evergreen tree up to 8 m. tall, about 15 cm in DBH. |
| Trunk & bark : | Trunk straight, longitudinally grooved. Bark smooth with few lenticels, grey; inner bark pale yellow with white fiber. |
| Branches and branchlets or twigs : | Branchlet terete, glabrous, greenish-brown to blackish brown. |
| Exudates : | Exudate absent. |
| Leaves : | Simple leaves, alternate, elliptic 1-5 x 4-15 cm. in length, apex caudate, base attenuate, margin entire, with pellucid glands, young leaves brownish, blade pubescent then glabrous. Midrib flat above, secondary veins obtuse, 2-4 pairs, intramarginal vein single, tertiary veins reticulate. Petiole terete 5-10 mm. long with glands. Exstipulate. |
| Inflorescences or flowers : | Inflorescence axillary or pseudo-terminal panicles, up to 6 cm. long, pubescent, pedicel very short about 3 mm. long, persistent bract and bractioles. Flowers green. |
| Fruits : | Fruit solitary drupe, ellipsoid to cylindrical, glabrous. 3-5 X 8-10 mm. in length, one locule, green then turning purple. |
| Seeds : | Seed 1. |