Vasilis Teodoridis:
Ebenaceae | Diospyros
31. Diospyros maclurei Merrill; Philipp. J. Sci. 23: 259. 1923.
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Trees to 30 m tall. Trunk to 50 cm d.b.h.; bark black. Branches gray; young shoots greenish brown; soon glabrescent. Winter buds needlelike; ca. 2 mm; appressed pale brown puberulous. Petiole 5--10 mm; leaf blade oblong to obovate; rarely elliptic; 8--14.5 X 2.5--6 cm; leathery to thickly papery; glabrous; base cuneate; apex obtusely shortly acuminate; lateral veins 7--9 per side and looped before margin; reticulate veinlets abaxially raised and adaxially inconspicuous. Flowers not seen. Infructescences fascicles or short racemes. Fruiting pedicel 8--10 mm; densely puberulent. Fruiting calyx ca. 2.5 cm in diam.; reflexed; rusty tomentose; glabrescent; lobes 4; apex subrounded. Berries orange-red; cylindric to subglobose; 4--5 cm; densely rusty tomentose; glabrescent. Seeds few; blackish brown; oblong; 3--3.5 X 0.8--0.9 X 0.4--0.5 cm. Fr. Oct-Feb.
* Slopes or in dense evergreen mixed broadleaved forests in valleys; 0-800 m. Hainan