Diospyros candolleana - Kanara Ebony

Kanara Ebony is a tree up to 15 m tall, bark 5-6 mm thick, greenish-black, smooth. Leaves are simple, alternate, leaf-stalk 8-14 mm long stout, grooved above, rugose, hairless; blade 7-15 x 2.5-5 cm, oblong or elliptic-oblong, base pointed, narrowed, wedge-shaped or blunt, tip bluntly tapering, margin entire, leathery, lateral nerves 9-11 pairs. Flowers are unisexual, pale yellow; male flowers: 7-8 mm across, stalkless, in dense tawny woolly, in leaf-axils fascicles; sepal-cup 5 mm long, woolly; sepals 5, ovate, pointed or almost blunt; flower urn-shaped, more than twice as long as the sepal-cup, fulvous-hairy outside; petals 5, ovate, pointed; stamens 10, in unequal pairs. Female flowers: 1-1.2 cm across, stalkless, 2-10 in tawny woolly, in leaf-axils fascicles; sepal-cup hairy on both side; sepals 5, ovate, pointed, margin reflexed. Fruit is a berry, 2.5 cm long, conical, green; sepal-cup flat or shallowly cupuliform, sepals triangular with reflexed margins. Kanara Ebony is found in Peninsular India.