Ochrosia akkeringae (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Ochrosia akkeringae (Teysm. & Binnend.) Miq.

Family: Apocynaceae

Synonyms

• Ochrosia littoralis Merr.,
• Excavatia littoralis (Merr.) Markgr.

Vernacular names

• Philippines: pakoidan (Negritos), dins (Magindanao), labuei (Sulu).

Distribution

Indonesia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea.

Uses

The seeds are edible, raw or cooked.

Observations

• Tree, up to 13 m tall.
• Leaves in whorls of 3-5.
• Flowers yellow.
• Fruit composed of 2 drupelets which are united at lower half; drupelets hairy, 3-4 cm long; stones thick-walled, containing several seeds.

In dry forests, up to 300 m altitude.

Selected sources

• Backer, C.A. & Bakhuizen van den Brink, R.C., 1963 1968. Flora of Java. 3 Volumes. Noordhoff, Groningen, the Netherlands.

• Brown, W.H., 1951-1957. Useful plants of the Philippines. Reprint of the 1941-1943 ed. 3 Volumes. Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources. Technical Bulletin 10. Bureau of Printing, Manila, the Philippines.

• Tyozaburo Tanaka & Sauke Nakao (Editors), 1976. Tanaka's Cyclopedia of Edible Plants of the World. Keigaku Publishing Co., Tokyo. 924 pp.

Authors

P.C.M. Jansen, J. Jukema, L.P.A. Oyen, T.G. van Lingen