View source for Ochrosia ← Ochrosia You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason: The action you have requested is limited to users in the group: Users. You can view and copy the source of this page. {{Treatment/ID |accepted_name=Ochrosia |accepted_authority=Jussieu |publications={{Treatment/Publication |title=Gen. Pl., |place=144. 1789 |year=1789 }} |common_names=Yellowwood |special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status |code=I |label=Introduced }} |basionyms= |synonyms= |hierarchy=Apocynaceae;Ochrosia |hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Apocynaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Ochrosia]]</div></div> |etymology=Greek okhros, pale yellow, probably alluding to color of stem, leaf, and fruit of some species |volume=Volume 14 |mention_page= |treatment_page= }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>or small trees; latex milky. <b>Stems</b> erect, unarmed, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> persistent, opposite [whorled], petiolate; stipular colleters intrapetiolar; laminar colleters absent. <b>Inflorescences</b> subterminal or axillary, cymose, pedunculate. <b>Flowers</b>: calycine colleters absent; corolla white or cream [pale yellow], salverform, aestivation dextrorse; corolline corona absent; androecium and gynoecium not united into a gynostegium; stamens inserted at top of corolla tube; anthers not connivent, not adherent to stigma, connectives not appendiculate or enlarged, locules 4; pollen free, not massed into pollinia, translators absent; nectary annular. <b>Fruits</b> drupaceous, paired or solitary, erect, red [yellow, orange], ellipsoid to ovoid, compressed, smooth, glabrous. <b>Seeds</b> elliptic or orbiculate, flattened, narrowly winged, not beaked, not comose, not arillate. <b>x</b> = 10.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=Florida;Asia;Indian Ocean Islands (Réunion);Pacific Islands;Australia. |introduced=true |discussion=<p>Species ca. 40 (1 in the flora).</p><!-- --><p>According to P. Boiteau (1981), the hard, fibrous endocarp of Ochrosia fruits facilitates flotation and dispersal by water.</p> |tables= |references= }}<!-- --><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Ochrosia |author=David E. Lemke |authority=Jussieu |rank=genus |parent rank=family |synonyms= |basionyms= |family=Apocynaceae |distribution=Florida;Asia;Indian Ocean Islands (Réunion);Pacific Islands;Australia. |introduced=true |reference=None |publication title=Gen. Pl., |publication year=1789 |special status=Introduced |source xml= |genus=Ochrosia }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Apocynaceae]] Templates used on this page: Template:Apocynaceae (view source) Template:Treatment/AuthorLink (view source) Template:Treatment/Body (view source) Template:Treatment/Body/Maps (view source) Template:Treatment/ID (view source) Template:Treatment/ID/Special status (view source) Template:Treatment/Publication (view source) Return to Ochrosia.