English Lao
Botanical descriptions Habitat and ecology Distribution
| Diagnostic characters : | Young stem reddish with fawn and minute stellate hairs and a circular fold on stem between petiole. Leaves shiny green above. Inflorescence terminal very dense with small white flowers. |
| Habit : | Evergreen shrub or small tree up to 6 or 8 m high. Branches ascending to the main trunk. Crown bushy, dense and rounded. |
| Trunk & bark : | Bark roughly smooth to chaffy, lenticelled, grey brown, inner bark brown, wood white. |
| Branches and branchlets or twigs : | Twigs terete, slightly hairy with fawn hairs when young, becoming glabrous, lenticelled, with sometimes a circular fold on stem between petiole. |
| Exudates : | Exudate absent. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite decussate, 12-15 by 4-7 cm, elliptic-oblong or obovate, apex rounded or truncate or acute, base attenuate, margin slightly dentate, blade coriaceous, bright green above, glaucous below, pubescent with fawn stellate hairs, young leaves reddish. Midrib canaliculate, primary vein single, pinnate, secondary veins oblique to the midrib, widely parallel, tertiary veins oblique. Petiole flat above, glabrous or slightly pubescent. Stipules absent. |
| Inflorescences or flowers : | White tiny flowers grouped in compact terminal panicle, flagrant, rachis pubescent. |
| Fruits : | Fruit is a drupe, 1 by 1 cm, ovoid, shiny, red, becoming dark red to black. |
| Seeds : | Seed 1. |