Diospyros abyssinica (Hiern) F.White

Native to:

Angola, Benin, Burkina, Cameroon, Central African Repu, Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

• Akoègninou, A., van der Burg, W.J. & van der Maesen, L.J.G. (eds.) (2006). Flore Analytique du Bénin: 1-1034. Backhuys Publishers.
• Boudet, G., Lebrun, J.P. & Demange, R. (1986). Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Mali: 1-465. Etudes d'Elevage et de Médecine Vétérinaire des Pays Tropicaux.
• Brundu, G. & Camarda, I. (2013). The Flora of Chad: a checklist and brief analysis. PhytoKeys 23: 1-18.
• Darbyshire, I., Kordofani, M., Farag, I., Candiga, R. & Pickering, H. (eds.) (2015). The Plants of Sudan and South Sudan: 1-400. Kew publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
• Figueiredo, E. & Smith, G.F. (2008). Plants of Angola. Strelitzia 22: 1-279. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
• Fischer, E., Rembold, K., Althof, A. & Obholzer, J. (2010). Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Kakamega forest, Western province, Kenya. Journal of East African Natural History 99: 129-226.
• Gosline, G., Bidault, E., van der Burgt, X., Cahen, D., Challen, G., Condé, N., Couch, C., Couvreur, T.L.P., Dagallier, L.M.J., Darbyshire, I., Dawson, S., Doré, T.S., Goyder, D., Grall, A., Haba, P., Haba, P., Harris, D., Hind, D.J.N., Jongkind, & al. (2023). A Taxonomically-verified and Vouchered Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Republic of Guinea. Nature, scientific data 10, Article number: 327: [1]-[12].
• Govaerts, R. (2000). World Checklist of Seed Plants Database in ACCESS D: 1-30141.
• Thiombiano, A., Schmidt, M., Dressler, S., Ouédraogo, A., Hahn, K. & Zizka, G. (2012). Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Burkina Faso. Boissiera 65: 1-391.
• Timberlake, J.R., Bayliss, J., Alves, T., Francisco, J., Harris, T., Nangoma, D. & de Sousa, C. (2009). Biodiversity and Conservation of Mchese Mountain, Malawi. Report produced under the Darwin Initiative Award 15/036: 1-71. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

• in Bull. Jard. Bot. Brux. 26: 294, tt. 76 F-K, 77 C-D (1956).

Kew Backbone Distributions

• Brundu, G. & Camarda, I. (2013). The Flora of Chad: a checklist and brief analysis. PhytoKeys 23: 1-18.
• Thiombiano, A., Schmidt, M., Dressler, S., Ouédraogo, A., Hahn, K. & Zizka, G. (2012). Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Burkina Faso. Boissiera 65: 1-391.

Flora of Tropical East Africa

• Beentje, Kenya Trees, Shrubs and Lianas p. 445, fig. (1994).
• Dale & Greenway, Kenya Trees and Shrubs p. 172 (1961).
• F. White in Bulletin du Jardin Botanique National de Belgique 48: 287 (1978).
• F. White in Bulletin du Jardin Botanique National de Belgique 58: 371 (1988).
• F. White in Bulletin du Jardin Botanique de l'État a Bruxelles 26: 241, 294, figs. 76F-L, 77C-D, 80 (1956).
• F. White in Flora Zambesiaca 7(1): 263 (1983)
• F. White in Flora of West Tropical Africa, ed. 2, 2: 10 (1963).
• F. White in Flore d'Afrique Centrale, Ebenaceae: 19 (1987)
• F. White, Forest Flora of Northern Rhodesia p. 332, t. 59G (1962)
• K. Coates Palgrave, Trees Southern Afr.: 743 (1977).
• Letouzey & F. White in Fl. Cameroun 11 & Fl. Gabon 18: 29, t. 19/12-18 (1970).
• Vollesen in Opera Bot. 59: 31 (1980).