Diospyros crumenata Thwaites

 
  • Family : EBENACEAE
  • Family (As per The Plant List) : Ebenaceae
  • Species : Diospyros crumenata
  • Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Diospyros crumenata Thwaites
  • Vernacular name : Thumri (Kan.)
  • Collection Nos : Talbot 3560, CJS 13202, CJS 16025
  • Key identification features : A large tree. Leaves elliptic or elliptic-oblong, obtuse. Male fl: usually in shortly stalked 3-7-flowered cymes. Female fl: solitary in leaf-axil, large. Fruit 3-5 cm in diam., depressed globose to slightly ovoid, glabrous or nearly so, seated on the much enlarged nearly flat calyx. Seeds 6-8; endosperm ruminate
  • Habit : Tree
  • Native : Sri Lanka
  • Comments : Common in semi-evergreen forests
  • Conservation Status : Endangered (EN)
  • Distribution Locality : Hassan, Kodagu, Dakshina Kannada
  • Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Saldanha, 1984; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara

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