English Lao
Botanical descriptions Habitat and ecology Distribution
| Diagnostic characters : | Evergreen trees, bark smooth. Leaves simple alternate and distichous. Inflorescence axillary, leaf-opposed. Fruit smooth, berry-like, yellowish. |
| Habit : | Evergreen tree up to 12 m tall. |
| Trunk & bark : | Bole straight, bark brownish-grey, thin, smooth. |
| Branches and branchlets or twigs : | Twigs terete, glabrous. |
| Exudates : | Exudate absent. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate and distichous, glabrous, elliptic to ovate, apex acute, base cuneate. Midrib flat above; secondary veins obtuse, widely parallel, tertiary veins reticulate. Stipules absent. |
| Inflorescences or flowers : | Flowers arranged in few-flowered clusters, leaf-opposed, bisexual, pedicels up to 4 mm long. |
| Fruits : | Fruitlets 3.5 - 9 cm, cylindrical, smooth, not splitting open. |
| Seeds : | Seeds 3-5. |