Ilex ficoidea Hemsl.

Species

Angiosperms > Aquifoliales > Aquifoliaceae > Ilex

Characteristics

Shrubs or trees, evergreen, 2-12 m tall. Young branchlets longitudinally angular and sulcate, glabrous; older than second year’s branchlets yellow-brown or brown, smooth; leaf scars semicircular, flattened; lenticels absent. Stipules very minute, caducous; petiole 6-10 mm, abaxially rounded, transversely striate, adaxially sulcate; leaf blade adaxially deep green, shiny, elliptic, oblong, ovate, or obovate-elliptic, 4.5-10 × 1.5-3.5 cm, leathery, both surfaces glabrous, midvein narrowly impressed adaxially, lateral veins 8-10 pairs, slightly raised abaxially, obscure adaxially, anastomosing near margin, reticulate veins obscure, base obtuse, cuneate, or subrounded, margin irregularly crenate-serrate, apices of teeth black and slightly recurved when dry, apex abruptly long caudate, acumen ca. 1.5 cm. Inflorescences: cymes of order 1 or 2, 1-3-flowered, fasciculate, axillary on current year’s branchlets; flowers white or yellowish green, fragrant, 4-merous. Male inflorescences: cymes of order 1 or 2, 1-3-flowered; peduncles ca. 2 mm; bracts scaly, ovate, ca. 1 mm, abaxially median keeled, base with appendage, apex acute, ciliate; pedicels 1-3 mm; bracteoles 2, basal or subbasal; calyx patelliform, 2-2.5 mm, lobes deltoid, apex acute, ciliate; corolla ca. 6 mm in diam., petals ovate-oblong, ca. 3 × 1.5 mm, basally slightly connate, apically ciliate; stamens longer than petals, anthers oblong-ovoid; rudimentary ovary ovoid-conical, ca. 1 mm in diam., apex minutely 4-lobed. Female inflorescences: 1-flowered cymes; pedicels 2-3 mm; bracteoles 2, basal, ciliate; calyx puberulent or glabrescent, lobes often keeled; corolla erect, 3-4 mm in diam., petals free, ovate, ca. 2.5 mm, ciliate; staminodes ca. as long as petals, sterile anthers ovoid, small; ovary ovoid, ca. 2 mm, ca. 1 mm in diam., stigma discoid. Fruit red, globose or subglobose, 5-7 mm in diam., tuberculate (under lens); persistent calyx explanate, quadrangular, ca. 2 mm in diam.; persistent stigma thinly discoid or navel-like; pyrenes 4, ovoid or subglobose, 3-4 mm, 1.5-2.5 mm in diam., both ends obtuse, abaxially palmately striate, longitudinally slightly 1-sulcate, laterally rugose and pitted, endocarp stony. Fl. Mar-May, fr. Aug-Nov.
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Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
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Mature height (meter) 2.0 - 12.0
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Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Evergreen broad-leaved forests, thickets, forest margins, sparse woods, mountains; at elevations fro, 100-1,500 metres.
Light 4-9
Soil humidity 3-7
Soil texture 3-4
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Hardiness (USDA) 6-12

Usage

Uses medicinal
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Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
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Distribution

Ilex ficoidea world distribution map, present in China, Thailand, Taiwan, Province of China, and Viet Nam

Conservation status

Ilex ficoidea threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:83292-1
WFO ID wfo-0001219526
COL ID 6MV8S
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Synonyms

Ilex buergeri f. glabra Ilex ficoidea Ilex glomeratiflora