Taxon: Ochrosia elliptica Labill.

Common names:

• pokosola   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• scarlet wedge-apple   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• gu cheng mei gui shu   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Pl Res SEAs 12(2):387. 2001)
  
• Materials: beads   (fide Bot Beads World; as web document)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide F ChinaEng)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - New South Wales, Queensland
• PACIFIC
  Southwestern Pacific: Nauru; New Caledonia; Vanuatu

• also cultivated

References:

• Aubréville, A. et al., eds. 1967–. Flore de la Nouvelle Caledonie et dependances.
• George, A. S., ed. 1980–. Flora of Australia.
• Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Smith, R. J. Botanical beads of the world (on-line resource).
• Valkenburg, J. L. C. H. van & N. Bunyapraphatsara, eds. 2001. Medicinal and poisonous plants 2. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 12(2):386–389.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition). [cultivated].

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Ochrosia elliptica.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Ochrosia elliptica.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Ochrosia elliptica.

Check other web resources for Ochrosia elliptica Labill.:

• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• ABRS: Australian Biological Resources Study Flora of Australia online
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• Fruit: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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