Ilex gracilis C.J.Tseng

Species

Angiosperms > Aquifoliales > Aquifoliaceae > Ilex

Characteristics

Trees evergreen, small, ca. 8 m tall. Young branchlets castaneous or black, shiny, subterete, slender, irregularly striate, pubescent; second year’s branchlets terete, glabrescent; terminal buds lanceolate, ferruginous pubescent. Petiole ca. 1 cm, pubescent, adaxially narrowly sulcate; leaf blade olivaceous when dry, elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 7-9 × 2.5-3.5 cm, leathery, both surfaces glabrous, sometimes strigose, midvein impressed adaxially, lateral veins 7-9 pairs, slightly raised on both surfaces, anastomosing near margin, reticulate veins slightly raised abaxially, inconspicuous adaxially, base obtuse or acute, margin crenulate-serrate, apex abruptly caudate-acuminate, acumen 1-1.5 cm. Flowers not known. Infructescences: 1-fruited cymes, fasciculate or pseudoracemose, axillary, fascicles 4-or 5-fruited; fruiting pedicels 3.5-4 mm, densely pubescent; persistent bracteoles basal, deltoid, pubescent. Fruit (immature) subglobose or ellipsoidal-globose, ca. 5 mm, ca. 4 mm in diam., pubescent; persistent calyx ca. 2 mm in diam., shallowly 4-lobed, lobes deltoid, ciliate; persistent stigma discoid; pyrenes 4, oblong, ca. 3.5 mm, ca. 2 mm in diam., abaxially palmately striate and sulcate, laterally striate and sulcate, endocarp stony. Fl. unknown, fr. Oct.
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Distribution

Ilex gracilis world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:897988-1
WFO ID wfo-0001219601
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Synonyms

Ilex gracilis