Vasilis Teodoridis:
Ebenaceae | Diospyros
54. Diospyros hainanensis Merrill; Philipp. J. Sci. 23: 258. 1923.
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Trees to 20 m tall. Trunk to 60 cm d.b.h. Branches pale gray; young shoots dark brown to almost black hispidulous. Petiole 1--1.5(--2) mm; leaf blade narrowly elliptic; elliptic; or lanceolate; 10--19 X 3.5--7.5 cm; leathery; glabrescent; adaxial surface ± glossy; base broadly cuneate; apex obtuse to obtusely acuminate; lateral veins 9 or 10 per side; reticulate veinlets dense and abaxially raised. Male flowers solitary or crowded in cymes; calyx campanulate; ca. 8 X 10--12 mm in diam.; dark brown strigose; calyx lobes 4; shorter than tube; erect; flat; corolla white; campanulate; glabrous; tube as long as calyx; corolla lobes 4 or 5; stamens 40. Female flowers solitary; calyx bowl-shaped; ca. 1 X 1.5 cm; lobes 4; corolla campanulate; ca. 1.6 cm; corolla lobes 4; recurved; 5--8 X 6--7 mm. Fruiting pedicel 5--7 mm; robust. Berries black; ovoid to subglobose; 3--5 cm in diam.; usually 8-locular; glabrescent when ripe. Fl. Mar-May; fr. Aug-Jan.
* Evergreen broadleaved forests in moist places; 0-800 m. Hainan