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|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
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|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
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--><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><!--

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|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>
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-->{{#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=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/master/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V14/V14_43.xml
|genus=Ochrosia
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