English Lao
Botanical descriptions Habitat and ecology Distribution
| Diagnostic characters : | Opposite leaves with translucent dots without stipules. |
| Habit : | Evergreen tree up to 35 m tall. |
| Trunk & bark : | Bole straight, bark whitish green, smooth. |
| Branches and branchlets or twigs : | Twigs terete, young ones angular, glabrous. |
| Exudates : | Exudate absent. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, ovate to elliptic, apex acute to acuminate, base acute or rarely rounded, with distinct simple marginal vein, margin entire, lamina with translucent dots. Primary vein single, secondary veins oblique, tertiary veins indistinctly admedial. Stipules absent. |
| Inflorescences or flowers : | Flowers arranged in a many-flowered inflorescence, terminal or axillary, bisexual, pedicels up to 3 mm long. |
| Fruits : | Fruit berry up to 1 cm long, fleshy. |
| Seeds : | Seed 1. |