Diospyros hemiteles I.Richardson (1980:731)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Rediscovered
Reduced to a single female plant when a male died in 1945 (Lucas & Synge, 1978:193), before W. Strahm found further plants (Rutty & Strahm, 2000).
Distribution & Habitat
Mauritius, Mascarene Islands
Anatomy & Morphology
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Richardson, I. B. K. (1980). Notes on Diospyros (Ebenaceae) in the Mascarene Islands. Kew Bulletin 34(4): 723-735. https://doi.org/10.2307/4119064
Other references:
Bosser, J., Cadet, Th., Julien, H. R. and Marais, W. (1981). Flore des Mascareignes, 111 Campanulacees to 120 Salvadoracees. The Sugar Industry Research Institute, Mauritius, ORSTOM, Paris and RBG, Kew.
Govaerts, R. (2000). World Checklist of Seed Plants Database in ACCESS D: 1-30141.
Hilton-Taylor, C. (2000). 2000 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
Lucas, Grenville Llewellyn and Synge, Hugh (compilers). (1978). The IUCN Plant Red Data Book. Morges, Switzerland: IUCN. 540 pp. [pp. 193-194]
Oldfield, Sara, Lusty, Charlotte and MacKinven, Amy (compilers). (1998). The World List of Threatened Trees. Cambridge, U.K.: World Conservation Press. 650 pp.
POWO. (2025). Plants of the World Online (online resource). Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 3 March 2025]
Richardson, I. B. K. (1981). Flore des Mascareignes: 117. Ebénacées. 1-19.
Rutty, R. (TPTNC) and Strahm, W. (2000). Diospyros hemiteles. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2000: e.T30541A9561679. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2000.RLTS.T30541A9561679.en. Accessed on 02 March 2025.
Strahm, W. A. (1993). The conservation and restoration of the flora of Mauritius and Rodrigues. Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis (2 vols.), Reading University, UK.
Venkatasamy, S., Khittoo, G., Nowbuth, P. and Vencatasamy, D. R. (2006). Phylogenetic relationships based on morphology among the Diospyros (Ebenaceae) species endemic to the Mascarene Islands. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 150(3): 307-313. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8339.2006.00474.x