English Lao
Botanical descriptions Habitat and ecology Distribution
| Diagnostic characters : | Small evergreen trees. Flowers unisexual on the same tree, small, yellow. Fruit berry-like, fleshy, not splitting open purple-black. |
| Habit : | Evergreen shrubs or tree up to 12 m tall. |
| Trunk & bark : | Bole straight, or sometimes branched at base, bark reddish--brown, smooth or finely fissured. |
| Branches and branchlets or twigs : | Twigs terete, glabrous or finely hairy. |
| Exudates : | Exudate absent. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate and distichous, young leaves long silky tomentose-hairy, lanceolate, apex acuminate, base acute, margin finely dentate. Primary vein single, secondary veins obtuse, looped at the margin, tertiary veins reticulate. Petiole hairy, terete. Stipules absent. |
| Inflorescences or flowers : | Flowers arranged in a 2--5-flowered inflorescence, axillary or along leafless twigs, unisexual, on the same tree, pedicels up to 3 mm long. |
| Fruits : | Fruit a berry up to 0.6 cm in diameter, thinly fleshy, not splitting open. |
| Seeds : | Seeds many. |