English Lao
Botanical descriptions Habitat and ecology Distribution
| Diagnostic characters : | Deciduous trees, with large deeply dissected (antler-like) stipules and yellow, large flowers, fruit a pod tapering on both sides, with two long narrow wings, not splitting. |
| Habit : | Deciduous tree up to 30 m tall. |
| Trunk & bark : | Bole straight or leaning, bark greenish-brown, smooth, often with lenticels. |
| Branches and branchlets or twigs : | Twigs angular, glabrous, hairy when young. |
| Exudates : | Exudate absent. |
| Leaves : | Leaves compound, bipinnate, alternate and spiral, leaflets oblong, apex slightly emarginated, base asymmetrical, margin entire. Stipules persistent, deeply dissected antler-like. |
| Inflorescences or flowers : | Flowers arranged in a many-flowered inflorescence, axillary, bisexual, pedicels longer than 0.5 cm. |
| Fruits : | Fruit a pod up to 3.5 cm long, tapering on both sides, with two long narrow wings, not splitting. |
| Seeds : | Seeds 4-8. |