Herbarium JCB

Diospyros sylvatica Roxb.

Family : EBENACEAE
Family (As per The Plant List) : Ebenaceae
Species : Diospyros sylvatica
Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Diospyros sylvatica Roxb.
Vernacular name : Bilisarali (Kan.)
Collection Nos : KFP 7182, HFP 410, Talbot 3708
Endemism : Western Ghats
Key identification features : A small tree. Leaves are elliptic-lanceolate, acute or acuminate at apex, glabrous and drying black. Male flowers are very small, in distinctly peduncled cymes, usually 4-merous. Female flowers are solitary, twice as large as the male. Fruit is globose, upto 2 cm across, seated on the woody, cup-shaped accrescent calyx. Seeds 2-8. endosperm ruminate.
Habit : Tree
Native : India
Comments : Occasional in semi-evergreen forests in Ghats. Timber is of commercial importance
Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
Distribution Locality : Belgaum, Dakshina Kannada, Hassan, Shimoga, Uttara Kannada, Udupi
Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Saldanha, 1984; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara