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Diospyros laurina
Diospyros laurina, commonly known as brown ebony, is a species of plant in the persimmon family Ebenaceae native to New Guinea and the eastern tropical coast of Queensland, Australia. It is a shrub or small tree that grows in rainforest. It has the conservation status of Least Concern.
It is an understory tree of rainforest and drier forest types, occurring in Papua New Guinea and Queensland. In Queensland its native range is from Shelburne southwards along the east coast to about Mackay. The altitudinal range is from sea level to about 800 m (2,600 ft).
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Diospyros laurina by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
