Ilex limii C.J.Tseng

Species

Angiosperms > Aquifoliales > Aquifoliaceae > Ilex

Characteristics

Trees evergreen, ca. 10 m tall. Young branchlets purple-black, glabrous, longitudinally plicate; old branchlets brown, with sparse inconspicuous lenticels; terminal buds ovoid, hirsute. Petiole terete, 1-1.3 cm, abaxially carinate, adaxially flat, glabrous; leaf blade oblong or elliptic-oblong, 7-13 × 3-4 cm, leathery, glabrous, midvein raised on both surfaces, lateral veins 10-14 pairs, and dense reticulate veins slightly raised on both surfaces, base cuneate or obtuse, margin entire, recurved, apex acuminate. Flowers not known. Infructescences: cymes, 1-3-fruited, solitary, axillary; peduncles 5-7 mm, densely pubescent; fruiting pedicels 5-7 mm, densely pubescent or glabrescent. Fruit ellipsoidal, ca. 10 mm, 5-7 mm in diam.; persistent calyx ca. 5 mm in diam., 5-lobed; persistent stigma thinly discoid; pyrenes 5, oblong, ca. 7 mm, ca. 4 mm in diam., abaxially longitudinally and deeply 1-sulcate, rugose when dry, endocarp leathery. Fl. unknown, fr. Aug-Nov.
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Hardiness (USDA) 6-11

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Distribution

Ilex limii world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1002061-1
WFO ID wfo-0001247935
COL ID 3PFLS
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Synonyms

Ilex limii