• 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• Literature : Flora of Karnataka, Saldanha, 1984; Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished); Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara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 14 November 2024.

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