- Family : EBENACEAE
(Ebony Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : BISTENDU FAMILY (बिसतॆंदु फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : EBENACEAE
- Synonym(s) : Diospyros nigrescens (Dalzell) C.J.Saldanha
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Diospyros vera (Lour.) A.Chev.
- Vernacular name : Hole-kuncha (Kannada)
- Habit : Tree
- Comments / notes : Common in forests along streams
- Key identification features : A small tree; branchlets fulvous-pubescent. Leaves up to 8 cm long, lanceolate, obtusely acute at apex, coriaceous, midrib pubescent beneath. Male flowers: usually trimerous, in short axillary 1-5-flowered cymes. Female flowers: solitary or in pairs, trimerous. Fruit c. 7.5 mm long, ellipsoid, fulvous-hairy when young, seated on the lobed cup-shaped calyx
- Flower, Fruit : February-September
- Collection Nos : KFP 6918, KFP 7621, KFP 11804, KFP 12249
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Kodagu (Coorg) district, Dakshina Kannada district, Udupi district, Chikkamagaluru district, Shivamogga district, Belagavi district, Dharwad district, Hassan district,Uttara Kannada district
- Native : India
- Endemism : Western Ghats
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature : Flora of Karnataka, Saldanha, 1984; Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished); Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Diospyros angustifolia. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.
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