English Lao
Botanical descriptions Habitat and ecology Distribution
| Habit : | Evergreen tree up to 10 m. tall, rounded canopy, up to 20 cm in DBH. |
| Trunk & bark : | Trunk very finely cracked to smooth, densely lenticellate; bark light brown, outer bark light reddish, inner bark light brown. |
| Branches and branchlets or twigs : | Branches covered by brown hairs, and lenticellate. |
| Exudates : | Exudate absent. |
| Leaves : | Imparipinnately compound leaves, alternate, rachis up to 7 cm. long, swollen at the base, opposite leaflets 1-3 (4), oblong to lanceolate, terminal leaflet 4-6 x 10-15 cm., lateral leaflets 1-2 x 2-5 cm. in length, apex caudate, base acute, margin entire, glabrous on both surfaces, upper surface dark green, pale on lower surface. Primary vein single, secondary veins oblique, about 6-12 pairs, prominent below, tertiary veins indistinctly reticulate. Petiolule very short or sessile. |
| Inflorescences or flowers : | Inflorescence light green, axillary panicle, shorter than leaf, covered with hairs and yellowish punctate glands. Flowers white, bisexual, ovate up to 4-5 mm. in diameter, light green, sessile. |
| Fruits : | Fruit is a berry-like, globose about 1 cm. in diameter, yellow, pubescent. |
| Seeds : | One seed enveloped by reddish-brown aril. . |