English Lao
Botanical descriptions Habitat and ecology Distribution
| Diagnostic characters : | Evergreen trees, branchlets glabrous. Exudate resinous. Leaves simple with domatia. Stipules absent. Flowers bisexual. Fruit a drupe. |
| Habit : | Evergreen tree up to 20 m. |
| Trunk & bark : | Bark brownish lenticellate. |
| Branches and branchlets or twigs : | Branches terete or angled, glabrous. |
| Exudates : | Exudate resinous. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; 6.5-16 x 2-10 cm, elliptic, with glabrous domatia; apex acuminate, base acute to attenuate or obtuse, glabrous, margin entire. Midrib canaliculate above; secondary veins 4-6 pairs gradually curved; tertiary veins indistinctly reticulate. Petiole canaliculate, glabrous. Stipules absent. |
| Inflorescences or flowers : | Inflorescences terminal panicles. Flowers bisexual. |
| Fruits : | Fruit a drupe, ellipsoidal. |