Diospyros, L.

Puglisi, C., Jimbo, T. & Hagwood, A., 2022, Two new species of Diospyros (Ebenaceae) from New Guine, Edinburgh Journal of Botany 79, pp. 1-10 : 9

Key to Diospyros species from New Guinea and the Moluccas with large, chartaceous leaves

1a. Leaf glabrous above and reddish purple beneath, fruit fusiform with caudate apex D. fusicarpa

1b. Character combination not as above _______________________________________________ 2

2a. Mature fruit globose to oblate, lobes of fruiting calyx very large and leafy, young leaves conspicuously hairy _______________________________________________________ D. pulchra

2b. Character combination not as above _______________________________________________ 3

3a. Leaf base subcordate, black pitted glands at leaf base conspicuous ________________ 4

3b. Leaf base acute to narrowly obtuse, black pitted glands inconspicuous to absent ___ 5

4a. Fruit densely colliculate, leaf apex broadly acuminate or acute, black pitted glands at leaf base small and not densely clustered, [Moluccas] _____________________ D. rostrata

4b. Fruit smooth, leaf apex narrowly acuminate, black pitted glands at leaf base densely clustered, [New Guinea] ___________________________________________ D. multimaculata

5a. Petioles <5 mm long, fruiting calyx 3-merous, fruit apex obtuse _________ D. janowskyi

5b. Petioles> 6 mm long, fruiting calyx 4-merous, fruit apex acute _______________ D. tehno