Diospyros Beccarioides
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''Diospyros beccarioides'' is a tree in the family
Ebenaceae The Ebenaceae are a family of flowering plants belonging to order Ericales. The family includes ebony and persimmon among about 768 species of trees and shrubs. It is distributed across the tropical and warmer temperate regions of the world. It ...
. It grows up to tall. Twigs are reddish brown when young.
Inflorescences An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a Plant stem, stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphology (biology), Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of sperma ...
bear three or more flowers. The fruits are roundish, up to in diameter. The tree is named for its resemblance to ''Diospyros beccarii'', a synonym of '' Diospyros sumatrana''. Habitat is lowland limestone hills from sea level to altitude. ''D. beccarioides'' is found in
Sumatra Sumatra is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia. It is the largest island that is fully within Indonesian territory, as well as the sixth-largest island in the world at 473,481 km2 (182,812 mi.2), not including adjacent i ...
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Borneo Borneo (; id, Kalimantan) is the third-largest island in the world and the largest in Asia. At the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia, in relation to major Indonesian islands, it is located north of Java, west of Sulawesi, and eas ...
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Sulawesi Sulawesi (), also known as Celebes (), is an island in Indonesia. One of the four Greater Sunda Islands, and the world's eleventh-largest island, it is situated east of Borneo, west of the Maluku Islands, and south of Mindanao and the Sulu Ar ...
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beccarioides Plants described in 2001 Trees of Sumatra Trees of Borneo Trees of Sulawesi {{Tree-stub