Ilex cheniana T.R.Dudley

Species

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Characteristics

Trees evergreen, small, ca. 5 m tall. Current year’s branchlets black-brown, striate; leaf scars subcircular, conspicuously convex; lenticels elliptic, sparsely pubescent; second year’s branchlets brown-gray, longitudinally striate, leaf scars and lenticels very conspicuous; terminal buds ovoid, densely yellow villous. Petiole 6-10 mm, stout, yellow pubescent, sulcate adaxially; leaf blade elliptic, 9-11 × 4-5 cm, thinly leathery, midvein raised and glabrous abaxially, slightly impressed and minutely puberulent adaxially, lateral veins 9 or 10 pairs, slightly distinct abaxially, slightly impressed adaxially, base subrounded, margin sparsely serrate, apex acuminate. Flowers not known. Infructescences: cymes of order 2, 3-fruited, solitary, axillary on current year’s branchlets; peduncles 5-6 mm, compressed, pubescent; fruiting pedicels ca. 5 mm, puberulent. Fruit red, globose, ca. 1 cm in diam.; persistent calyx slightly 6-lobed or undulate, ciliate; persistent stigma thinly discoid, shallowly 4-lobed; pyrenes 4, abaxially broadly 1-sulcate, cross section V-shaped. Fl. unknown, fr. Nov.
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Mature height (meter) 5.0
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Distribution

Ilex cheniana world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:941090-1
WFO ID wfo-0001250444
COL ID 6MV7B
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Synonyms

Ilex congesta Ilex cheniana