Description
It is a tree reaching 4–6 meters in height. Its rigid, smooth, gray to black branches have sparse lenticels. Its oblong, hairless leaves are 18 by 4.5 centimeters and arranged in an alternate phyllotaxis, phyllotaxy. The base of the leaves are tapered, and their apex terminate in a sharp, stiff point or cusp. Its petiole (botany), petioles are 8 millimeters long, hairless and wrinkled on their undersides, with a channel on their upper surface. Its inflorescences have 3-4 flowers. Its peduncle (botany), peduncles are scaly and covered in fine hairs. Its pedicel (botany), pedicels are equal in length to its flowers, have bracts at their bases and are covered in brown hairs. Its flowers have 3 oval sepals with bluntly pointed tips. The sepals have fine hairs on their outer surface and their margins but are hairless on their inner surface. Its flowers are 8-9 millimeters long and have 6 petals in two rows of three. The outer petals are narrowly elliptical and hairless on both surfaces. The inner petals are half the length of the outer petals. The margins of the inner petals are connected toward the top, but free at their bases which form a broad petal, claw. Its flowers have 3-4 rows of stamen that essentially lack filaments. Its anthers dehiscence (botany), dehisce longitudinally. The connective tissue between the lobes of the anthers extends above their tops. Its flowers have 10 gynoecium, pistils with smooth carpels, no apparent styles and elongate stigma (botany). Each ovule has 8-10 ovary (botany), ovaries.Reproductive biology
The pollen of ''G. laoticus'' is shed as permanent tetrads.Uses
Bioactive molecules extracted from its flowers have been reported to have antiplasmodial, antimycobacterial and cytotoxic activities.References
Goniothalamus, laoticus Flora of Laos Flora of Thailand Traditional medicine Species described in 1907 Taxa named by Nguyên Tiên Bân Taxa named by Achille Eugène Finet Taxa named by François Gagnepain {{Annonaceae-stub