Diospyros inhacaensis F.White

Trees or shrubs 3-12 m high; twigs slender, cinereous to blackish, young parts quite glabrous or very sparsely hairy on nerves and leaf margins. Leaves usually borne in one plane, hence seeming distichous, glossy, dark green, elliptic to broadly elliptic, or occasionally obovate-elliptic, 2.5-6.5 cm long and 1.5-3.5 cm wide, quite glabrous or very sparsely hairy on midrib and lower margins, coriaceous, drying a chocolate brown or blackish colour; base cuneate, apex rounded to acute with a rounded tip; margin finely but strongly undulate; petioles 3-5 mm long, glabrous. Flowers not seen but probably dioecious, trimerous. Female flowers in axillary clusters of 2-3 together or solitary. Fruits spindle-shaped or obovate-oblong, tapering at both ends and somewhat 4-angled, apiculate, 1.3-1.5 cm long and 7-8 mm in diam., drying a deep brown to black in colour, one-seeded. Seeds obovate, circumvented by a thin more or less straight line; endosperm white, bony, opaque, not ruminate.