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Table 3. Morphological comparison between Diospyros borneensis Hiern and D. fecunda H. R in Notes on South-East Asian Diospyros L. (Ebenaceae, Ericales): commonly misidentified species in mainland South-East Asia
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- 1. Herbarium, School of Biological Sciences, Health and Life Sciences Building, University of Reading, Reading, RG 6 6 AS, UK. & Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, TW 9 3 AE, UK. & Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 20 A, Inverleith Row, Edinburgh, EH 3 5 LR, UK.
- 2. Department of Forest Biology, Faculty of Forestry, Kasetsart University, 50 Ngam Wong Wan Road, Lat Yao, Chatuchak, Bangkok, 10900, Thailand.
- 3. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, TW 9 3 AE, UK. & Singapore Botanic Gardens, National Parks Board, 1 Cluny Road, 259569, Singapore.
- 4. Herbarium, School of Biological Sciences, Health and Life Sciences Building, University of Reading, Reading, RG 6 6 AS, UK.
- 5. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, TW 9 3 AE, UK. & Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Blvd., St. Louis, MO, 63110, USA.
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Table 3. Morphological comparison between Diospyros borneensis Hiern and D. fecunda H.R.Fletcher.
| Characters | D. borneensis | D. fecunda |
|---|---|---|
| Leaf shape and size | Oblong, up to 20 cm long | Elliptic, up to 15 cm long |
| Lateral vein number | 10–14 on each side | 6–9 on each side |
| Intramarginal line | Present, continuous from leaf base to apex (Fig. 8) | Not present |
| Lateral vein colour (when dried) | Conspicuously darker colour than leaf blade | Not obviously darker than leaf blade |
| Tertiary veins | Coarsely scalariform | Reticulate or somewhat irregularly scalariform |
| Fruit shape and size | Globose, 3.5–4 × 3.5–4 cm | Broadly ovoid, 3–4 × 3–4 cm |
| Fruit lobes (when mature and dried) | Usually deeply splitting throughout the fruit | Usually shallowly splitting, sometimes deeply splitting near the base |
| Fruit indument | Conspicuously hairy with rusty hairs | Subglabrous, usually hairy near the base, hairs yellowish |
| Fruiting calyx | Irregularly splitting into 3–5 lobes, 1.5–2 cm in diam. | Irregularly splitting into 3–7 lobes, 1–1.5 cm in diam. |
| Fruit stalk length | 1–2 cm long | Subsessile, up to ca 0.5 cm long |
| Number of seeds | 8 | (8–)12–16 |
Notes
Published as part of Meeprom, Nattanon, Duangjai, Sutee, Utteridge, Timothy M. A., Culham, Alastair & Puglisi, Carmen, 2024, Notes on South-East Asian Diospyros L. (Ebenaceae, Ericales): commonly misidentified species in mainland South-East Asia, pp. 245 in European Journal of Taxonomy 932 on page 245, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.932.2533, http://zenodo.org/record/11178563
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