Spermatophyta: Dicotyledonae: Metachlamydeae: Ericales

Ebenaceae - Ebony family

White, F. (1983) Ebenaceae Flora Zambesiaca 7(1)

Description of the family

Trees, shrubs or suffrutices. Stipules 0. Leaves simple, usually alternate (sometimes opposite, subopposite or whorled in some spp. of Euclea) and entire. Flowers actinomorphic, hypogynous, unisexual but usually with the rudiments of the other sex present, 3-8-merous. Calyx gamosepalous, persistent in fruit, in Diospyros usually accrescent. Corolla gamopetalous. Stamens 3-100 or more. Ovary with 2-8 carpels, each carpel with 2 ovules. Fruit usually a berry.

Worldwide: 2 genera and 485 species, mostly tropical and warm areas with a few temperate species.

Zimbabwe: 1 cultivated genus and 3 cultivated taxa.

Diospyros whyteana

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Diospyros L.Description, Image

Other sources of information about Ebenaceae:

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Flora of Botswana: Ebenaceae
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Flora of Malawi: Ebenaceae
Flora of Mozambique: Ebenaceae
Flora of Rwanda: Ebenaceae
Flora of Zambia: Ebenaceae
Flora of Zimbabwe: Ebenaceae

External websites:

African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Ebenaceae
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Ebenaceae
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iNaturalist: Ebenaceae
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Ebenaceae
JSTOR Plant Science: Ebenaceae
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Ebenaceae
Wikipedia: Ebenaceae
Plants of the World Online: Ebenaceae
Tropicos: Ebenaceae



Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2002-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Zimbabwe: Cultivated plants: Family page: Ebenaceae.
https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/cult/family.php?family_id=79, retrieved 9 December 2024

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