Diospyros ferrea
Diospyros ferrea, known as black ebony, is a tree in the ebony family, distributed in Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Malay Peninsula, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Laos (Khammouan).
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Ericales |
Family: | Ebenaceae |
Genus: | Diospyros |
Species: | D. ferrea |
Binomial name | |
Diospyros ferrea | |
Synonyms | |
Common names
- Chinese - 象牙树 (literally "Ivory Tree")
- Philippines - batulinau
- Indonesia - bibisan, ai meten, wawama
- Sri Lanka - Hik-ul-Haenda
- Viet Nam - trandung
- French - ngavi du fourré littoral (‘ngavi’ of littoral thickets, Aubréville).
- West African - GHANA ADANGME gblεt∫o (FRI) NIGERIA HAUSA kas kawami (KO&S) YORUBA paroko (KO&S) SENEGAL DIOLA (Bayot) é tikuñi (JB) MANDING-MANINKA ko gélin ko: tree (JB) WOLOF sélah (JB)
Distribution
From West Africa to India, Indo-China, north to the Ryukyu Islands, east to the Malesian area, Australia, Melanesia and Polynesia.
Uses
D. ferrea is reported to be an important source of black ebony, but this is doubtful because of the unsatisfactory taxonomy of the group involved.
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References
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- Lemmens, R.H.M.J.; Soerianegara, I.; Wong, W.C., eds. (1995). Timber trees: Minor commercial timbers. Plant Resources of South-East Asia. 5. Leiden, the Netherlands: Backhuys Publishers. pp. 193–194.
External resources
- Dressler, S.; Schmidt, M. & Zizka, G. (2014). "Diospyros ferrea". African plants – a Photo Guide. Frankfurt/Main: Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg.
- https://archive.is/20130707154040/http://211.114.21.20/tropicalplant/html/print.jsp?rno=950
- http://plants.jstor.org/upwta/2_11
- http://www.biotik.org/laos/species/d/diofe/diofe_en.html
- https://web.archive.org/web/20160304053115/http://manoa.hawaii.edu/botany/plants_of_micronesia/index.php/scientific-names/360-diospyros-ferrea
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