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Diospyros whyteana (also known as the bladdernut, swartbas, wild coffee or umTenatane) is a small African tree of the ebony family. Bearing dark green, strikingly glossy leaves and creamy fragrant flowers, it is increasingly cultivated in Southern African gardens as an attractive and strong ornamental tree. It can attain a height of up to 6 m.

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Diospyros abyssinica is a tree species in the family Ebenaceae. It is native to Sub-Saharan Africa and is also known as giant diospyros, or Kôforonto and Baforonto in local languages spoken in parts of Mali. blidzo, blitcho, gblit∫o, blonyat∫o or gblεt∫o in some Ghanaian languages

Dactyladenia cinerea is a species of plant in the family Chrysobalanaceae. It is endemic to Cameroon. It is threatened by habitat loss.

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Neocarya is a genus of plant in family Chrysobalanaceae described as a genus in 1976. It contains only one known species, Neocarya macrophylla, native to western and central Africa from Senegal to the Nigeria, and also in South Sudan. It is commonly known in English as the Gingerbread Plum, despite not being related to the true Plum (Prunus sp.).

Turraea socotrana is a species of flowering plant in the family Meliaceae. It is a shrub or tree endemic to the island of Socotra in Yemen. It is a rare plant which grows on cliffs and in ravines in the island's central and western limestone plateaus, and less commonly on granite in the Hajhir Mountains, from 500 to 700 meters elevation. It has attractive sweet-smelling cream-colored flowers which emerge before the leaves.

Rawsonia burtt-davyi is a species of plant in the Achariaceae family. It is endemic to Mount Mulanje in Malawi.

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Dactyladenia mannii is a species of flowering plant in the family Chrysobalanaceae. It is a climbing shrub or small tree native to Bioko Island in Equatorial Guinea and to southwestern Cameroon. It grows in lowland and submontane forest, sometimes along rivers, up to 800 metres elevation. It is threatened by habitat loss. The species was first described as Griffonia mannii by Daniel Oliver in 1871. In 1979 Ghillean Prance and Frank White placed the species is genus Dactyladenia as D. mannii.

Dactyladenia laevis is a species of plant in the family Chrysobalanaceae. It is endemic to Gabon, where it is found only in the vicinity of Libreville. It is threatened by habitat loss due to extensive logging.

Dactyladenia johnstonei is a species of flowering plant in the family Chrysobalanaceae. It is a shrub or tree native to western Cameroon and southeastern Nigeria. In Cameroon it is found in the Mount Kupe and the Bamenda Highlands. Its natural habitats are forested valley slopes in submontane forests at elevations of 950 to 1,600 m. It is threatened by habitat loss due to logging and clearance for agricultural land. The species was first described as Acioa johnstonei by Arthur Clague Hoyle in 1932. In 1979 Ghillean Prance and Frank White placed the species in genus Dactyladenia as D.

Dactyladenia hirsuta is a species of plant in the family Chrysobalanaceae. It is endemic to Ivory Coast and Ghana. Its natural habitats are wet evergreen forests. It is threatened by extensive logging of its habitat, the effects of mining and the establishment of commercial plantations.

Dactyladenia eketensis is a species of flowering plant in the family Chrysobalanaceae. It is a tree native to southern Nigeria and Gabon. The species has suffered from extensive habitat loss from oil exploration and extraction, and the IUCN Red List assesses the species as Critically Endangered. The species was first described as Acioa eketensis by Émile Auguste Joseph De Wildeman in 1920. It is named after Eket in southeastern Nigeria, where it was discovered. In 1979 Ghillean Prance and Frank White placed it genus Dactyladenia as D. eketensis.

Dactyladenia dinklagei is a species of plant in the family Chrysobalanaceae. It is endemic to Ivory Coast, Ghana and Liberia. Its natural habitats are wet evergreen forests. It is threatened by habitat loss due to mining activities, logging and commercial planting.

Dactyladenia dichotoma is a species of plant in the family Chrysobalanaceae. It is endemic to Nigeria. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Bafodeya is a genus of plants in the family Chrysobalanaceae described in 1976. There is only one known species, Bafodeya benna, native to tropical West Africa (Mali, Guinea, Sierra Leone). The species is listed as vulnerable.

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