- Family:
- Ebenaceae Gürke
- Genus:
- Diospyros L.
Diospyros capricornuta F.White

[FTEA]
Ebenaceae, F. White & B. Verdcourt. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1996
- Morphology General Habit
- Tree up to 16 m. tall but sometimes flowering at only 2 m.; bark reddish, striate, ± peeling on some branches; young branchlets and leaves ferruginous tomentose.
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves drying pale brown or reddish brown above, glaucous beneath and contrasting with the darker nerves and veins, lanceolate or lanceolate-elliptic, 6.5-11 cm. long, 3-4.7 cm. wide, subacuminate to acuminate at the apex, acute to obtuse at the base, the margin slightly revolute, subcoriaceous, chestnut-pubescent when young beneath, densely strigulose on the nerves, but with sparser longer hairs on surface between, becoming glabrous but with glaucous look due to dense minute scales, upper surface glabrous except for the densely hairy impressed midrib; lateral nerves in 5-7 pairs, slightly impressed above, very prominent beneath; tertiary nerves and veins impressed above (at least on young leaves), prominent beneath; petiole 0.6-1.2 cm. long.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Male flowers subsessile, 1-3 together in the leaf-axils of fallen leaves, pedicels ± 1 mm. long; calyx cyathiform, 5 mm. long, ferruginous tomentose; calyx-lobes 4, triangular, 2-2.5 mm. long; corolla yellow-green, narrowly conoidal, up to 1.5 cm. long, 4 mm. wide, slightly curved in bud, at anthesis hypocrateriform, ferruginous-tomentose; corolla-lobes 3-4, lanceolate, 6-7.5 mm. long, 3 mm. wide, spreading; stamens 12, in 4 pairs alternating with 4 singles which are opposite the corolla-lobes, ± 5.5 mm. long, included; filaments ± 1 mm. long, glabrous except for an occasional seta, inserted on the receptacle; anthers ± 4.5 mm. long with pronounced apiculum; rudimentary ovary represented by a tuft of hair. Female flowers and fruit unknown.
- sex Male
- Male flowers subsessile, 1-3 together in the leaf-axils of fallen leaves, pedicels ± 1 mm. long; calyx cyathiform, 5 mm. long, ferruginous tomentose; calyx-lobes 4, triangular, 2-2.5 mm. long; corolla yellow-green, narrowly conoidal, up to 1.5 cm. long, 4 mm. wide, slightly curved in bud, at anthesis hypocrateriform, ferruginous-tomentose; corolla-lobes 3-4, lanceolate, 6-7.5 mm. long, 3 mm. wide, spreading; stamens 12, in 4 pairs alternating with 4 singles which are opposite the corolla-lobes, ± 5.5 mm. long, included; filaments ± 1 mm. long, glabrous except for an occasional seta, inserted on the receptacle; anthers ± 4.5 mm. long with pronounced apiculum; rudimentary ovary represented by a tuft of hair.
- sex Female
- Female flowers and fruit unknown.
- Habitat
- Forest; 150-600 m.
- Distribution
- not known elsewhere T6 T8
Native to:
Tanzania
Diospyros capricornuta F.White appears in other Kew resources:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
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Jan 1, 1988 | Procter, J.E.A. [9], Tanzania | K000350759 | holotype | Yes |
First published in Bull. Jard. Bot. Natl. Belg. 58: 405 (1988)
Accepted by
- Govaerts, R. (2000). World Checklist of Seed Plants Database in ACCESS D: 1-30141.
Literature
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- F. White in Bulletin du Jardin Botanique National de Belgique 58: 405 (1988).
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Flora of Tropical East Africa
Flora of Tropical East Africa
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Kew Backbone Distributions
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