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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Diospyros

Hierarchical position of the Genus Diospyros

Regnum  Plantae common name: The plant kingdom       Divisio  Magnoliophyta Cronquist syn. Angiospermophyta / Anthophyta pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: angiosperms, flowering plants       Subdivisio  Magnoliophytina Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: Angiosperms       Classis  Rosopsida Batsch pub. Dispos. Gen. Pl. Jenens.: 28. 1788.       Subclassis  Dilleniidae Takht. ex Reveal & Tahkt. pub. 1993       SuperOrdo  Primulanae R. Dahlgren ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 79: 71. 29 Apr 1996.       Ordo  Styracales Bisch. pub. Lehrb. Bot. 2(2): 655. 1839.       Subordo  Ebenineae Bessey in C.K. Adams pub. Johnson's Universal Cyclop. 8: 463. 15 Nov 1895.       Familia  Ebenaceae G�rcke in Engl. & Prantl pub. Nat. Pflanzenfam., IV, 1: 153. Dec 1891, nom. cons. common name: Ebonys, Persimmon       Tribus  Diospyreae Duby pub. Bot. Gall. 1: 320. 12-14 Apr 1828.       Genus  Diospyros L. pub. (1753) common name: diospyros

Named members of the Genus Diospyros

1	Species  blancoi A. DC. common name: mabolo
2	Species  chinensis Blume syn. Diospyros kaki
3	Species  digyna Jacq. common name: black sapote
4	Species  discolor Willd. syn. Diospyros blancoi
5	Species  ebenaster auct. non Retz. syn. Diospyros revoluta common name: zapote negro
6	Species  ebenum Koenig ex Retz. common name: ebony
7	Species  ferrea (Willd.) Bakh.
	8    Varietas  degeneri Fosberg syn. Diospyros sandwicensis 9    Varietas  kauaiensis Fosberg syn. Diospyros sandwicensis 10    Varietas  pubescens (Skottsberg) Fosberg syn. Diospyros sandwicensis 11    Subspecies  sandwicensis (A. DC.) Fosberg syn. Diospyros sandwicensis 12    Varietas  sandwicensis (A. DC.) Bakh. syn. Diospyros sandwicensis 13    Varietas  toppingii Fosberg syn. Diospyros sandwicensis
14	Species  hillebrandii (Seem.) Fosberg common name: elama
15	Species  kaki L. f. common name: Japanese persimmon, kaki  (Japanese), Japanese date plum
16	Species  lotus L. common name: date plum, lotus plum, Trebizond date
17	Species  maritima Blume
18	Species  mosieri Small syn. Diospyros virginiana
19	Species  philippensis (Desr.) Guerke syn. Diospyros blancoi
20	Species  revoluta Poir. common name: black apple
21	Species  sandwicensis (A. DC.) Fosberg
	22    Varietas  elliptica St. John syn. Diospyros sandwicensis 23    Varietas  frameata St. John syn. Diospyros sandwicensis 24    Varietas  kauaiensis (Fosberg) St. John syn. Diospyros sandwicensis 25    Varietas  kokeensis St. John syn. Diospyros sandwicensis 26    Varietas  lanaiensis (Fosberg) St. John syn. Diospyros sandwicensis 27    Varietas  miloliensis St. John syn. Diospyros sandwicensis 28    Varietas  oahuensis St. John syn. Diospyros sandwicensis 29    Varietas  obtusa (Fosberg) St. John syn. Diospyros sandwicensis 30    Varietas  ovalis St. John syn. Diospyros sandwicensis 31    Varietas  puberula St. John syn. Diospyros sandwicensis 32    Varietas  pubescens St. John syn. Diospyros sandwicensis 33    Varietas  rotundata St. John syn. Diospyros sandwicensis 34    Varietas  rugosa St. John syn. Diospyros sandwicensis 35    Varietas  sclerophylla (Fosberg) St. John syn. Diospyros sandwicensis 36    Varietas  toppingii (Fosberg) St. John syn. Diospyros sandwicensis 37    Varietas  wailauensis (Fosberg) St. John syn. Diospyros sandwicensis 38    Varietas  wiebkei (Fosberg) St. John syn. Diospyros sandwicensis
39	Species  sintenisii (Krug & Urban) Standl. common name: Chinese persimmon
40	Species  texana Scheele common name: Texas persimmon
41	Species  virginiana L. common name: American persimmon, Simmons tree, date plum
	42    Varietas  mosieri (Small) Sarg. syn. Diospyros virginiana 43    Varietas  platycarpa Sarg. syn. Diospyros virginiana 44    Varietas  pubescens (Pursh) Dippel syn. Diospyros virginiana

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

Additional information is available in the commercial version of The Compleat Botanica software for species with this symbol.

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.