Ilex machilifolia H.W.Li ex Y.R.Li

Species

Angiosperms > Aquifoliales > Aquifoliaceae > Ilex

Characteristics

Trees evergreen, ca. 20 m tall. Branchlets brown-yellow, robust, longitudinally angular and sulcate; leaf scars subcircular, raised; lenticels raised, elliptic, glabrous; terminal buds ovoid; bud scales thick, ciliate. Petiole 1.5-2 cm, thick, flat to shallowly sulcate, abaxially longitudinally striate, adaxially puberulent, narrowly winged on lateral sides; leaf blade oblong-elliptic, rarely oblong or elliptic, 10-16 × 4-6 cm, papery to thinly leathery, midvein raised, puberulent adaxially, lateral veins 15-18 pairs, very evident on both surfaces, anastomosing near margin, glabrous or abaxially sometimes slightly minutely puberulent, reticulate veins very evident on both surfaces, base broadly cuneate to cuneate, margin entire, apex acuminate. Flowers not known. Infructescences: cymes, solitary, axillary; peduncles 5-9 mm, very compressed, longitudinally striate, glabrous; fruiting pedicels 3-10 mm, striate, glabrous. Fruit red, globose, ca. 1 cm in diam.; persistent calyx patelliform, explanate, deeply 5-or 6-lobed, lobes orbicular, membranous at margin, ciliate; persistent stigma discoid; pyrenes 5, oblong, abaxially deeply 1-sulcate, cross section U-shaped. Fl. unknown, fr. Nov-Dec.
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Distribution

Ilex machilifolia world distribution map, present in China

Conservation status

Ilex machilifolia threat status: Critically Endangered

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:906388-1
WFO ID wfo-0001247937
COL ID 3PFMQ
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Synonyms

Ilex machilifolia