English Lao
Botanical descriptions Habitat and ecology Distribution
| Habit : | Deciduous or evergreen tree up to 20 m tall. |
| Trunk & bark : | Bole straight, bark brown, fissured, slightly flaky. |
| Branches and branchlets or twigs : | Twigs terete, hairy. |
| Exudates : | Exudate absent. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate and spiral, oblanceolate, apex acute to cuspidate, base slightly asymmetrical, stellately hairy below, margin strongly toothed in upper half. 3-proeminent basal veins present, secondary veins oblique, widely parallel, tertiary veins horizontal. Stipules deeply divided, persistent at apex. |
| Inflorescences or flowers : | Flowers solitary, axillary, bisexual, pedicels longer than 0.5 cm. |
| Fruits : | Fruit capsule, up to 8 cm long, woody, splitting in 5 sections. |
| Seeds : | Seeds many, ovoid with a thin wing. |