Diospyros benstonei

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Overview

Critically Endangered

Description

Family Ebenaceae

Trees or erect shrubs , occasionally with spine-tipped branchlets . Leaves alternate, rarely opposite, entire; stipules absent. Flowers actinomorphic , usually unisexual , dioecious, or polygamous, rarely bisexual . Male flowers often in cymes, sometimes in clusters or solitary; pistil rudimentary or absent. Female flowers often solitary, axillary , imperfect or without stamens. Calyx 3--7-lobed, persistent and often becoming enlarged in female or bisexual flowers; lobes abutting or overlapping in bud. Corolla 3--7-lobed; lobes convolute, rarely overlapping or abutting. Stamens hypogynous or at bottom of corolla, 2--4 X as many as corolla lobes, rarely as many as corolla lobes and alternate with them; filaments free or united in pairs. Ovary superior, 2--16-locular; ovules 1 or 2 per locule. Styles 2--8, free or basally united; stigma entire or 2-lobed. Fruit a ± fleshy berry, with few to several seeds. Seeds usually oblong ; endosperm sometimes ruminate ; hilum small.

Three genera and ca. 500 species: mostly in the tropics; one genus and 60 species (43 endemic) in China.[1]

Genus Diospyros

Trees or shrubs , deciduous or evergreen . Terminal buds absent. Branchlet tips sometimes forming a spine. Leaves alternate, occasionally minutely translucent dotted or with gland pits. Flowers dioecious or polygamous. Male flowers in axillary cymes, usually on basal part of current year's branchlets, deciduous soon after anthesis ; stamens 4 to numerous , often paired and forming 2 whorls; ovary rudimentary . Female flowers usually solitary, axillary; staminodes 1--16 or absent; stigma often 2-cleft. Calyx usually 3--5(--7) -lobed, sometimes truncate . Corolla urn-shaped, campanulate , or tubular , 3--5(--7) -lobed, deciduous. Berries fleshy to somewhat leathery, usually with an enlarged persistent calyx. Seeds 1--10(or more), often laterally compressed .

About 485 species: pantropical and extending into temperate regions ; 60 species in China, most abundant in SE and SW China, several incompletely known and of uncertain status. [2]

Habitat

Ecology: This small rare tree occurs in streamside rainforest in a gorge .[3]

Taxonomy

Notes

Publishing author : Kosterm. Publication : Blumea 23(2): 452 (1977)

Similar Species

Members of the genus Diospyros

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 943 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

D. abyssinica · D. abyssinica subsp. chapmaniorum · D. abyssinica subsp. reticulata · D. acapulcensis · D. acocksii · D. acreana · D. acris · D. aculeata · D. acuminata · D. acunae · D. acuta · D. adenophora · D. adiensis · D. aequoris · D. affinis · D. aggregata · D. ahernii · D. aifatensis · D. akaraiensis · D. alata · D. alatella · D. albens · D. albiflora · D. alboflavescens · D. alpina · D. amaniensis · D. amara · D. amazonica · D. ambigua · D. amboinensis · D. amisandra · D. amoena · D. amplexicaulis · D. ampullacea · D. analamerensis · D. anceps · D. andamanica · D. andersonii · D. angulata (Bois D'ÉbÈne Feuilles) · D. angustifolia · D. anisandra · D. anisocalyx · D. anitae · D. ankifiensis · D. anosivolensis · D. anzoateguiensis · D. apeibacarpos · D. apiculata · D. araripensis · D. areolata · D. areolifolia · D. argentea · D. argyi · D. armata · D. artanthaefolia · D. artanthifolia · D. arupaj · D. assimilis · D. atra · D. atrata · D. atropurpurea · D. atrotricha · D. attenuata · D. aurea · D. auriculata · D. australis (Black-Plum) · D. austro-africana · D. austro-africana de · D. austroafricana · D. balansae · D. balfouriana · D. bambuseti · D. bangoiensis · D. bangueyensis · D. bantamensis · D. baranensis · D. barberi · D. baroniana · D. barteri · D. batocana · D. baumii · D. beccarii · D. bejaudii · D. bemarivensis · D. benstonei · D. bequaertii · D. bernieri · D. bernieriana · D. bezofensis · D. bibracteata · D. bicolor · D. bipindensis · D. blancoi (Velvet Persimmon) · D. blepharophylla · D. blumutensis · D. boala · D. bodinieri · D. boivini · D. borbonica · D. borneensis

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Further Reading

• Eddowes, P.J. 1997. Completed data collection forms for New Guinea.
• Eddowes, P.J. 1997. Letter to Sara Oldfield containing annotations to the 'Draft red list summary report for Papua New Guinea trees'.
• Li Shu-gang (as Lee Shu-kang). 1987. Ebenaceae. Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 60(1): 84-154.

Notes

Contributors

• Eddowes, P.J. 1998. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed December 02, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 4 providers.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 02, 2007:

• Harvard University Herbaria, Harvard University Herbaria
• National Herbarium of New South Wales, Plants of Papua New Guinea

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 7148413
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15461134
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:322130-1
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 322130-1
• IUCN ID: 38344
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1025142

Footnotes

1. Shugang Li, Michael G. Gilbert & Frank White "Ebenaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 15 Page 215. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. "Diospyros". in Flora of China Vol. 15 Page 215. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
3. Eddowes, P.J. 1998. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008. [back]

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