Ilex fargesii Franch.

Farges's holly (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Aquifoliales > Aquifoliaceae > Ilex

Characteristics

Trees evergreen, 4-8 m tall, or shrubs to 4 m tall, glabrous throughout. Branchlets brown or castaneous, terete, rugose; leaf scars deltoid and lenticels convex; young branchlets green, longitudinally angulate-ridged; terminal buds narrowly conical, apically acute. Petiole 0.8-1.6 cm, adaxially sulcate; leaf blade adaxially green, elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, oblanceolate, linear-oblanceolate, linear-lanceolate, or linear, 5-13(-16) × (0.8-)1.5-2.5(-3.7) cm, subleathery, midvein slightly impressed adaxially, lateral veins 8-10 pairs, raised abaxially, evident adaxially, reticulate veins evident abaxially, obscure adaxially, base cuneate or obtuse, margin sparsely serrulate in distal half or serrate in distal 2/3, apex acuminate. Inflorescences: cymes, fasciculate, axillary on second year’s branchlets. Male inflorescences: cymes of order 2, 3-flowered; peduncles ca. 1 mm; bracts deltoid, membranous, ciliate; pedicels ca. 2 mm; bracteoles 2, subbasal, deltoid or broadly deltoid, ciliate; flowers white, fragrant, 4-merous; calyx patelliform, ca. 2 mm in diam., 4-lobed, lobes suborbicular, ca. 1 mm, sparsely ciliate; corolla ca. 5 mm in diam., petals 4, obovate-oblong, 2-2.5 × ca. 1.5 mm, ciliate, basally slightly connate; stamens ca. 3/4 as long as petals, anthers oblong; rudimentary ovary ovoid-conical, apex obtuse, minutely 4-lobed. Female inflorescences: 1-flowered cymes; pedicels 2-3 mm; bracteoles 2 below middle; calyx as in male flowers; petals free, oblong, ca. 2 mm; staminodes shorter than petals, sterile anthers sagittate; ovary ovoid, 1.2-2 mm in diam., stigma discoid. Fruit red, globose, ca. 6 mm in diam., longitudinally striate; fruiting pedicels 5-7 mm; persistent calyx explanate; persistent stigma thinly discoid, 4-lobed; pyrenes 4, oblong, 4-4.5 mm, 3-3.5 mm in diam., abaxially convex, palmately striate and sulcate, laterally longitudinally striate and sulcate or sometimes reticulately striate and sulcate, endocarp woody. Fl. May, fr. Sep-Oct.
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Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
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Mature height (meter) 4.0 - 8.0
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Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Broad-leaved and mixed forests, hills; at elevations from 800-2,300 metres, occasionally to 2,900 metres.
Light 4-9
Soil humidity 3-7
Soil texture 3-4
Soil acidity 2-8
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Hardiness (USDA) 6-8

Usage

Uses environmental use medicinal
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Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.
Mode cuttings seedlings
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Images

Ilex fargesii unspecified picture

Distribution

Ilex fargesii world distribution map, present in China

Conservation status

Ilex fargesii threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:83283-1
WFO ID wfo-0001078606
COL ID 6N78Q
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Wikipedia (EN)
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Ilex fargesii Ilex fargesii var. fargesii

Lower taxons

Ilex fargesii subsp. melanotricha Ilex fargesii var. parvifolia Ilex fargesii var. angustifolia Ilex fargesii var. brevifolia