Ilex asprella Champ. ex Benth.

Species

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Characteristics

Shrubs deciduous, ca. 3 m tall. Branchlets castaneous, slender, glabrous; lenticels light colored; spur branchlets rugose, with persistent scales and leaf scars. Stipules persistent, deltoid, minute; petiole 3-8 mm, abaxially subrounded, glabrous, adaxially sulcate; leaf blade abaxially greenish, adaxially green, ovate or ovate-elliptic, (3-)4-6(-8) × (1.5-)2-3.5 cm, membranous, abaxially glabrous, adaxially puberulent, midvein impressed adaxially, lateral veins 5 or 6 pairs, raised abaxially, flat adaxially, anastomosing near margin, reticulate veins evident on both surfaces, base obtuse to subrounded, margin serrate, apex caudate-acuminate, acumen (3-)6-10(-15) mm. Male inflorescences: 1-flowered cymes, solitary or fasciculate, fascicles 2-5-flowered, axillary on leaves or scales; pedicels 4-6(-9) mm; flowers white, 4-or 5-merous; calyx patelliform, 2.5-3 mm in diam., glabrous, 4-or 5-lobed, lobes broadly deltoid or orbicular, margin erose, ciliate; corolla rotate, ca. 6 mm in diam., petals suborbicular, ca. 2 mm in diam., basally slightly connate, rarely ciliate; stamens ca. 3/4 as long as petals, filaments ca. 1.5 mm, anthers oblong, ca. 1 mm; rudimentary ovary pulvinate, rostellate. Female inflorescences: 1-flowered cymes, solitary, axillary on leaves or scales; pedicels 1-2 cm, glabrous; flowers 4-6-merous; calyx deeply 4-6-lobed, ca. 3 mm in diam., lobes ciliate; corolla rotate, petals suborbicular, ca. 2 mm in diam., basally slightly connate; staminodes ca. 1 mm, sterile anthers sagittate; ovary ovoid, ca. 1.5 mm in diam., style present, stigma thickly discoid. Fruit black, globose or ellipsoidal, 5-7(-8) mm in diam., longitudinally striate and sulcate; fruiting pedicel 2-3 cm; persistent calyx explanate, lobes ciliate; persistent stigma capitate or thickly discoid, style evident; pyrenes 4-6, obovoid-ellipsoidal, ca. 5(or 8) mm, ca. 2(or 3) mm in diam., abaxially 3-striate and sulcate, laterally striate, nearly smooth or sulcate, adaxial keel sharp, endocarp stony. Fl. Mar, fr. Apr-Oct.
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A shrub. It loses its leaves during the year. It grows 3 m tall. The branches are slender and reddish-brown. The leaves are oval and 4-6 cm long by 2-4 cm wide. There are teeth along the edge. Male and female flowers are separate. The fruit are ivak and black. They are 5-7 mm across.
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Growth form shrub
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Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality dioecy
Pollination entomogamy
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Mature height (meter) 3.0
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Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Hillsides, wild places, open woods or shrub thickets. Sparse forests on slopes, shrubby areas, roadsides; at elevations from 400-1,000 metres.
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It is a subtropical plant. In southern China it grows in sparse forests between 400-1,000 m above sea level.
Light 4-9
Soil humidity 4-6
Soil texture 1-6
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Hardiness (USDA) 6-12

Usage

Uses medicinal
Edible roots
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Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.
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Images

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Distribution

Ilex asprella world distribution map, present in China, Philippines, and Taiwan, Province of China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:83065-1
WFO ID wfo-0001078628
COL ID 3PF7B
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Synonyms

Prinos asprellus Ilex asprella Ilex oxyphylla Ilex gracilipes Ilex merrillii Ilex axyphylla Ilex asprella var. asprella Ilex asprella var. gracilipes

Lower taxons

Ilex asprella var. megalophylla