Vasilis Teodoridis:
Ebenaceae | Diospyros
47. Diospyros strigosa Hemsley; Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew. 1910: 193. 1910.
?? mao shi
Diospyros cardiophylla Merrill.
Shrubs or small trees; to 8 m tall; many parts conspicuously rusty strigose to pilose. Bark dark brown. Petiole 2--4 mm; leaf blade oblong; 5--14 X 2--6 cm; papery to thickly papery; abaxially reddish brown pilose on all veins and on margin; adaxially glabrous and usually drying gray brown but sometimes blackened; base truncate to cordate; apex acute to acuminate; lateral veins 7--10 per side and abaxially impressed; reticulate veinlets transverse and abaxially raised. Flowers solitary. Calyx lobes 4. Corolla salver-shaped; 7--10 mm; inside glabrous; lobes 4. Male flowers with 12 stamens. Female flowers with filiform staminodes; ovary strigose; styles 2. Fruit sessile. Fruiting calyx lobes 4; lanceolate; 7--10 X 3--4 mm; apex acute. Berries brown when dry; globose to ovoid; 1--1.5 cm; 4-locular; brown-pilose. Seeds 1--4; dark brown; ± 3-sided; ca. 8 X 3.7 X 3.2 mm; tip extended into a beak. Fl. Jun-Aug; fr. winter.
* Dense to open forests. Hainan (Leizhou peninsula).