Ochrosia
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Description
Trees or shrubs with white latex.
Branchlets terete, subangular or angular, glabrous, not lenticellate.
Leaves in whorls of 2-4(-6), papyraceous to coriaceous when dried, glabrous.
Inflorescence terminal and axillary cymes, in whorls or solitary, loose or congested, glabrous, often with bracts;
Flowers sometimes fragrant, small, pedicellate;
Sepals ovate, or suborbicular to orbicular, without colleters inside, connate at base.
Stamens included, free from each other and gynoecium;
Fruit usually apocarpous, rarely hemisyncarpous or syncarpous, drupaceous, smooth to verrucose, or with fine irregular ridges when dried, green and turning yellow, orange, red or purple when ripe;
Seeds 1-3 on each placenta, with a wing-like structure along the margin.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical, Pacific Islands present, from the Mascarene Islands and Seychelles in the west and throughout South Asia, Indochina, Malesia, northern Australia, and Pacific Islands as far east as the Marquesas and Hawaiian Islands present
About 40 species, of which 13 species in Malesia. The majority of species are in the Pacific Islands Spread from the Mascarene Islands and Seychelles in the west and throughout South Asia, Indochina, Malesia, northern Australia, and Pacific Islands as far east as the Marquesas and Hawaiian Islands.
For a discussion of the generic and sectional delimitation and keys for the species within the sections see Hendrian (2004).
For a discussion of the generic and sectional delimitation and keys for the species within the sections see Hendrian (2004).
Citation
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Fosberg, Boiteau & Sachet 1977 – In: Adansonia: 23
Fosberg & Sachet 1974 – In: Micronesica: 254, 255
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Hendrian 2004 – In: Blumea: 104
Valeton 1895 – In: Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg: 225
Markgr. 1927 – In: Bot. Jahrb. Syst.: 189
Fosberg, Boiteau & Sachet 1977 – In: Adansonia: 28
Fosberg & Sachet 1974 – In: Micronesica: 254
Fosberg & Sachet 1972 – In: Micronesica: 48
Seem. 1865: Fl. Vit.: 158
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Markgr. 1979 – In: Blumea: 241
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F. Muell. 1871 – In: Fragm.: 130
Markgr. 1979 – In: Blumea: 233
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Pichon 1947 – In: Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. (Paris): 206
Markgr. 1936 – In: Bernice P. Bishop Mus. Bull.: 127
Pichon 1947 – In: Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. (Paris): 205
Pit. 1933 – In: Lecomte, Fl. Indo-Chine 3: 1130
Koidz. 1923 – In: Bot. Mag. (Tokyo): 48