Diospyros inconstans Jacq.

Small tree 5-8 m tall; branchlets sparsely and minutely strigillose. Leaves chartaceous, drying dull dark brown, paler beneath; lamina to 16 cm long and 7 cm wide, oblong-elliptic, the apex rounded to shortly cuspidate, the base rounded to obtuse, the lower surface sparsely and minutely setulose, the lateral nerves in 7-10 pairs, prominent beneath, paler than the lamina, the nerves and veins forming a close and conspicuous reticulum. Male flowers subsessile or shortly pedicellate in mostly 3-flowered, shortly pedunculate cymules; calyx to 0.7 cm long, strigillose-puberulous outside and inside, the lobes 3(4), imbricate, as long as the tube, suborbicular, apiculate; corolla ca. 1.5 cm long, subrotate, the tube ca. 1 cm long, densely strigose, lobes 3, 0.5 cm long, 0.45 cm wide, sub-orbicular-apiculate, glabrous except for the strigose mid-petaline lines; stamens ca. 10, to 0.4 cm long, attached to the base of the corolla tube, included, gla-brous, the connective long-apiculate; pistillode absent. Female flowers solitary in the axils of leaves or of reduced leaves towards the base of the current year's growth; pedicel to 0.4 cm long; calyx 0.4 cm long, 0.5 cm wide, shallowly cup shaped, sparsely strigillose outside, tomentellous inside, the lobes 3, 0.2 cm long, rounded, the margin reflexed; corolla similar to that in male flower but shorter and broader; staminodes 3, attached to the base of the corolla tube; ovary 0.25 cm long, 0.25 cm wide, subglobose, strigillose-tomentellous, the style 0.15 cm long, stout, undivided, ending in 3, fleshy, bi-lobed stigmas, the locules 6, uniovulate. Fruit ca. 2.5 cm long, 2.5 cm wide, subglobose, glabrous; seeds 6, or fewer by abortion, 1.5 cm long, 0.8 cm wide, 0.5 cm thick, brownish black; endosperm smooth; fruiting calyx ca. 1.2 cm long, saucer shaped, lobed to the middle, sparsely puberulous outside, tomentellous inside.

Forests, often at higher elevations. Often found in moist, rocky soils near streams, usually in the middle of the forest, occasionally along the forest edges

The fruit are eaten fresh.

Plants are grown from seed. The seed are collected from ripe fruit by crushing the fruit in running water. Seeds are only viable for 30 days. Seeds germinate in 80-100 days.