English Lao
Botanical descriptions Habitat and ecology Distribution
| Diagnostic characters : | Evergreen trees, bark smooth to fissured, twigs angular. Leaves simple, opposite, with translucent dots in lamina. Flowers axillary, yellow-green. Fruit a fleshy drupe. |
| Habit : | Evergreen tree up to 12 m tall. |
| Trunk & bark : | Bole straight, sometimes leaning, bark brown, thin, smooth to shallowly fissured. |
| Branches and branchlets or twigs : | Twigs more or less angular, glabrous. |
| Exudates : | Exudate absent. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, or sometimes alternate, elliptic to obovate, glabrous, apex pointed, base cuneate. Primary vein single, secondary veins obtuse, tertiary veins reticulate, translucent dots and lines present. Stipules absent. |
| Inflorescences or flowers : | Flowers yellowish green, arranged in an inflorescence, axillary, bisexual, pedicel longer than 0.5 cm long. |
| Fruits : | Fruit 0.9 - 2 cm, drupe with a hard stone, gland - dotted, not splitting open. |
| Seeds : | Seeds 3-5. |