Diospyros pruriens Dalzell

 
  • Family : EBENACEAE
  • Family (As per The Plant List) : Ebenaceae
  • Species : Diospyros pruriens
  • Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Diospyros pruriens Dalzell
  • Collection Nos : Talbot 3067, Raghavan 62970, HFP 129
  • Endemism : Western Ghats
  • Key identification features : A small tree, branchlets and young parts fulvous-hirsute. Leaves elliptic or elliptic-oblong. Male fl: peduncles axillary, 1-3-flowered. Female fl: solitary, arranged at the ends of the branches in the axils of the leaves. Fruit ovoid-conical, clothed with fulvous stinging hairs, supported by the persistent deflexed non-accrescent calyx-lobes. Seeds 4; endosperm not ruminate
  • Habit : Tree
  • Native : India
  • Comments : Occasional in semi-evergreen forests
  • Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
  • Distribution Locality : Chikamagalur, Dakshina Kannada, Hassan, Kodagu, Shimoga, Uttara Kannada, Udupi
  • Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Saldanha, 1984; Gowda, 2004 - Sringeri; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara

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