Common name: Red-fruited Ebony, Silky Persimmon
Diospyros mabacea (F.Muell.) F.Muell. APNI* 
Description: Small tree.
Leaves elliptic to oblong or oblanceolate, 6–13 cm long, 2–5 cm wide, soft to firm, apex shortly acuminate, blunt or notched, upper surface dull or slightly glossy, lower surface pale green and moderately glossy, midvein impressed above, midvein and secondary veins raised and hairy below; leaves drying blackish; petiole 2–7 mm long.
Flowers 4-merous. Calyx lobes 4.
Fruit globose, 20–30 mm diam., scarlet, glabrous; calyx not greatly enlarged, lobes obtuse, recurved, glabrous; fruits summer.
Distribution and occurrence: in lowland subtropical rainforest; rare, confined to the Tweed Valley.
NSW subdivisions: NC
Threatened species: NSW BCA: Endangered; Commonwealth EPBC: Endangered
Text by G. J. Harden
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 (1990)
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