Vasilis Teodoridis:
Ebenaceae | Diospyros
15. Diospyros morrisiana Hance in Walpers; Ann. Bot. Syst. 3: 14. 1852.
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Shrubs or trees; 3--20 m tall; deciduous. Trunk to 30 cm d.b.h.; bark peeling off in thin pieces; surface black. Young shoots and winter buds puberulous; inflorescences and flowers tomentose; otherwise glabrous. Winter buds conical; ca. 2 mm. Petiole ca. 1 cm; leaf blade elliptic; 5--11.5 X 2.5--4.3 cm; thinly leathery; abaxially drying brown; adaxially glossy dark green and drying grayish brown; base cuneate or obtuse; margin sometimes slightly undulate; apex acuminate to obtuse; lateral veins 4--8 per side; reticulate veinlets very slender and inconspicuous. Male flowers congested; cymose; nodding; pedicel ca. 2 mm; calyx lobes 4; brownish puberulent; corolla glabrous; white; urn-shaped; ca. 7 mm; corolla lobes 4; spreading; ovate; ca. 2 X 2 mm; stamens 16--20; conspicuously hairy. Female flowers solitary; pedicel ca. 2 mm; calyx lobes 4; divided to about middle; corolla nearly urn-shaped; ca. 7 mm; corolla lobes 4; ca. 3 X 3 mm; outside glabrous; inside densely brown sericeous; staminodes 6. Fruiting pedicel ca. 3 mm; stout. Fruiting calyx ± square; 6--8 mm wide; outside densely puberulent; inside sericeous; lobes 4; spreading; triangular. Berries yellow; globose; 1.5--2.2(--2.9) cm in diam.; 8-locular; glabrous; apex sometimes apiculate. Seeds often ca. 4; glossy dark olive-brown; laterally compressed; (8--)10--14 X 5--7 X ca. (2--)3 mm. Fl. May-Jun; fr. Nov.
Forest slopes; ravines; along streams; (0--)100--1000(--1400) m. Fujian; Guangdong; Guangxi; Guizhou; Sichuan; Taiwan; Yunnan; Zhejiang [Japan; Vietnam]