Ilex estriata C.J.Tseng

Species

Angiosperms > Aquifoliales > Aquifoliaceae > Ilex

Characteristics

Shrubs evergreen. Second year’s branchlets gray-brown, terete, longitudinally fissured; current year’s branchlets gray-brown, ridged, puberulent or glabrescent; terminal buds conical, puberulent. Petiole 5-6 mm, puberulent or glabrescent; leaf blade abaxially brownish, adaxially olivaceous, shiny when dry, elliptic or oblong-elliptic, rarely ovate-elliptic, 7-8.5 × ca. 3 cm, papery, both surfaces glabrous, midvein raised on both surfaces, lateral veins 8-10 pairs, conspicuous abaxially, obscure adaxially, base obtuse, margin entire, apex abruptly caudate-acuminate, acumen 1-1.5 cm. Flowers not known. Infructescences: 1-fruited cymes, fasciculate, fascicles 4-or 5-fruited, axillary; fruiting pedicels 4-6 mm, puberulent; persistent bracteoles 2, basal, deltoid-ovate, puberulent. Fruit (immature) black when dry, globose, ca. 3 mm in diam.; persistent calyx 4-lobed, lobes deltoid or deltoid-ovate, puberulent, ciliate; persistent stigma thickly discoid or discoid; pyrenes 4, oblong, ca. 3 mm, ca. 1.5 mm in diam., abaxially smooth, not striate or sulcate, endocarp leathery. Fl. and fr. unknown.
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Distribution

Ilex estriata world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:897986-1
WFO ID wfo-0001219612
COL ID 6N78W
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Synonyms

Ilex estriata