Vasilis Teodoridis:
Ebenaceae | Diospyros
22. Diospyros tsangii Merrill; Lingnan Sci. J. 13: 43. 1934.
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Shrubs or small trees; to 7 m tall; young branchlets; midveins; lateral veins on adaxial leaf surfaces; and petioles rusty puberulous. Winter buds minutely pubescent. Petiole confluent with leaf base; leaf blade narrowly elliptic-oblanceolate to oblong; 4--9 X 1.5--3 cm; papery; abaxially appressed pilose when young; later glabrous except for midrib; and drying gray-green with dark veinlets; adaxially blackish; base cuneate and decurrent into a winged petiole; margin ciliate when young; apex acuminate; lateral veins 3--5 per side and slender. reticulate veinlets flat and clearly defined. Flowers in 1-flowered cymes. Male flowers ca. 8 mm; calyx pubescent; lobes 4; corolla white; ca. 7 X 5 mm; lobes 4 and appressed pubescent; stamens 16. Female flowers larger than male flowers; calyx deeply divided; calyx lobes 4; narrowly lanceolate; ca. 4.5 X 1.5 mm; both surfaces sparsely appressed pubescent; corolla white. Fruiting pedicel ca. 5 mm. Fruiting calyx tube ca. 0.6 X 1.2 cm; at first enclosing young fruit; minutely puberulent; lobes 4; erect; 10--12 X ca. 8 mm. Berries yellow; depressed globose; 1--3.5 cm in diam.; 8-locular; densely appressed pubescent; glabrescent. Fl. Feb-May; fr. Aug.
* Thickets; mixed broadleaved forests. Fujian; Guangdong; Jiangxi.
Vasilis Teodoridis:
Ebenaceae | Diospyros
24. Diospyros kaki Thunberg; Nova Acta Regiae Soc. Sci. Upsal. 3: 208. 1780.
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Trees; to 27 m tall; deciduous. Young branchlets densely pubescent to glabrous; sometimes with reddish brown lenticels. Winter buds small; blackish. Petiole 0.8--2 cm; leaf blade lanceolate; elliptic; or ovate; occasionally obovate; 5--18 X 2.6--9 cm; papery; pubescent when young drying brown; adaxially often glabrescent when mature and paler with dark veinlets; base cuneate; subtruncate; or rarely cordate; apex usually acuminate; lateral veins 5--7 per side; reticulate veinlets clearly defined; flat; and dark. Male flowers small; in 3--5-flowered cymes; calyx ± as long as corolla; hairy on both sides; lobes 4; corolla white; yellowish white; or red; 6--10 mm; stamens (14--)16--24. Female flowers solitary; calyx 3 cm or more in diam.; lobes 4; corolla usually yellowish white; campanulate; (0.9--)1--1.6 cm; lobes recurved and ovate; staminodes 8(--16); ovary glabrous or pubescent. Fruiting calyx 3--4 cm in diam. Berries yellow to orange; flattened globose to ovoid but usually globose; 2--8.5 cm in diam.; 8-locular; glabrescent. Seeds dark brown; 13--16 X 7.5--9 X 4--5 mm. Fl. May-Jun; fr. Sep-Oct.
Anhui; Fujian; Gansu; Guangdong; Guangxi; Guizhou; Hainan; Henan; Hubei; Hunan; Jiangsu; Jiangxi; Shandong; Shanxi; Sichuan; Taiwan; Yunnan; Zhejiang [widely cultivated outside of China; particularly Japan; naturalized in some areas].
24b. Diospyros kaki var. silvestris Makino; Bot. Mag. (Tokyo). 22: 159. 1908.
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Diospyros argyi H. Léveillé; D. trichocarpa Miao.
Young branchlets densely brown pubescent; obscurely lenticellate. Petiole and leaf blade densely pubescent. Calyx lobes ovate. Male corolla 6--9 mm. Fruiting calyx outside densely pubescent to glabrescent. Berries 2--5 cm in diam.; densely brown pubescent to glabrescent.
* Forests or thickets; on slopes; 0-1600 m. Fujian; Hubei; Jiangsu; Jiangxi; Sichuan; Yunnan