Diospyros evena (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Diospyros evena Bakh.

Protologue: Gard. Bull. Str. Settl. 7: 163 (1933).

Synonyms

Maba motleyi Hiern (1873) p.p.

Vernacular names

• Indonesia: malam (Malay, Belitung, Kalimantan), uwar haduk (Kalimantan).

Distribution

Belitung and Borneo.

Uses

The wood is used as ebony.

Observations

A medium-sized tree up to 28 m tall, bole up to 40 cm in diameter; leaves elliptical to obovate-lanceolate, 2-9 cm × 1-3 cm, base obtuse to rounded, apex rounded to slightly truncate, appressed puberulous when young but glabrescent; female flowers solitary, 4-merous, calyx lobes valvate, densely tomentose outside, ovary 3-locular; fruit ovoid-oblong to ellipsoid, 2-3 cm × 1.2-1.7 cm, sparsely pubescent to glabrous. D. evena is found at low altitude. The density of the wood is 670-770 kg/m³at 15% moisture content.

Selected sources

42, 77, 576.