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Diospyros tessellaria Poir.

Black Ebony; Mauritius Black Ebony

Ebenaceae · Mauritius

No habitat climate
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Diospyros tessellaria, photograph Abu Shawka, CC0, via Wikimedia CommonsDiospyros tessellaria, photograph S Molteno, CC0, via Wikimedia CommonsDiospyros tessellaria, photograph S Molteno, CC0, via Wikimedia CommonsDiospyros tessellaria, photograph S Molteno, CC0, via Wikimedia CommonsDiospyros tessellaria, photograph Abu Shawka, CC0, via Wikimedia CommonsDiospyros tessellaria, photograph S Molteno, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons 13 photographs ›

Summary

Diospyros tessellaria (black ebony, bois d'ebene noir or Mauritian ebony) is a species of tree in the family Ebenaceae.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Diospyros tessellaria", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Diospyros

Diospyros is a genus of over 700 species of deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs, which are typically dioecious. The majority are native to the tropics and many are of local ecological importance.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Diospyros", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 30 of the 31 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeMauritius · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker-20.35, 57.462 · in the densest population, 31 records (100% of those in range)
Kew's description“tree” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 31 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 27 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker in the same place. 1 record outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 30 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 31 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: Abu Shawka, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (2); S Molteno, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (4).

Other Diospyros 59 in the reference

Diospyros anisandra Diospyros anisandra Ebenaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, ferleyva_Diospyros argentea Diospyros argentea Silver-leaved Ebony Photo: CC BY, Adam Kamal Diospyros armata Ebenaceae Diospyros australis Diospyros australis Ebenaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Greg TasneyDiospyros blancoi Diospyros blancoi Mabolo Photo: CC0, author not statedDiospyros buxifolia Diospyros buxifolia Ebenaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedDiospyros cathayensis Diospyros cathayensis Ebenaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Dieter AlbrechtDiospyros celebica Diospyros celebica Indonesian Ebony Photo: CC BY-SA, StevanopuasaDiospyros chloroxylon Diospyros chloroxylon Green ebony persimmon Photo: CC BY, Ravuri Krishna Chaitanya Diospyros conzattii Ebenaceae Diospyros dasyphylla Ebenaceae Diospyros decandra Diospyros decandra Ebenaceae Photo: CC BY, Utain Pummarin all 60 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Diospyros reticulata; Ebenus tessellaria. (GBIF Backbone)

Under another author Diospyros ebenum Poir. is an older name of this species, not Diospyros ebenum, a species of the reference. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Ebenaceae
Described by
Poir.
Native to
Mauritius
Wild records
31 in range · 27 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 6 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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