Ochrosia ackeringae Miq.

Shrub or tree, 3-10 m high. Branchlets usually angular to subangular upwards, 2-4 mm diameter. Leaves in whorls of 2 or 3, coriaceous or papyraceous when dried; blades obovate, elliptic or narrowly so, 5.5-20 by 2.5-4.4 cm, ratio 2.1-4.6, base decurrent onto petiole, or cuneate, margin entire, apex usually acuminate, sometimes acute or cuspidate, very rarely shallowly retuse, rounded or truncate; secondary veins more than 35 pairs, at an angle of 75-85° from midrib, straight to rather arcuate ascending near the margin, not reaching the margin, joining, forming a submarginal vein. Inflorescence 2.5-10.7 cm long, terminal and axillary cymes, in whorls of 2 or 3; peduncle 1-6.9 cm long. Flowers fragrant, 8-20 on each inflorescence. Sepals ovate to broadly so, margin ciliolate, apex rounded, middle part of the lower half thick, ciliolate outside, smooth inside. Corolla white, villose inside, rather dense, forming a belt of 2 mm wide just below the insertion of stamens; tube 12.5 mm long, tube-calyx ratio 5.4-6.6, tube-lobes ratio 1. Stamens inserted at 3 mm below the mouth, 0.8 of the length of the corolla tube; filaments 0.5 mm long. Pistil 9 mm long; ovary ovoid, gradually narrowed at apex towards base of style; style 6.5 mm long, split at base. Fruit hemisyncarpous, V-shaped; mericarps united at base for 0.5-2.2(-3.2) cm, unequal in size, sometimes only one carpel developing; each mericarp ellipsoid or narrowly so, sometimes narrowly obovoid, base narrowed or rounded, apex acute or acuminate, acumen short and minute; endocarps massive, hard, surrounding 2 lateral spongy cavities of 0.3-0.4 cm diameter. Seeds 2 or 3 at either placenta.

Primary forests behind the beach, in the upper basin, along the riverbanks, or open areas; on sandy soil, or shallow phosphatised limestone scree and brown clay loam; mainly at low elevations, ascending to 300 metres.

UsesThe seeds are said to be edible either raw or cooked.

Can be grown by seedlings.