Ilex nothofagifolia Kingdon-ward

Species

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Characteristics

Trees evergreen, small, 3-5 m tall, glabrous throughout. Branchlets brown or gray, terete; young ones longitudinally ridged and sulcate, ridges densely corky verruculose; old branchlets smooth, nearly not verruculose; terminal buds narrowly ovoid; bud scales glabrous or puberulent. Leaves on first to third year’s branchlets; petiole 4-5 mm, slender, narrowly sulcate; leaf blade broadly elliptic, rarely broadly obovate or broadly ovate, 0.5-1.7 × 0.5-1.2 cm, papery, both surfaces glabrous, midvein impressed adaxially, lateral veins 3 or 4 pairs, and reticulate veins slightly raised abaxially, impressed adaxially, base obtuse or cuneate, margin slightly reflexed, with 4-9 pairs of teeth, apex obtuse-rounded, acumen. Inflorescences: 1-flowered cymes, solitary or few fascicled, fascicles 2-or 3-flowered, axillary on second year’s branchlets. Male inflorescences: pedicels ca. 4 mm; bracteoles 2, subbasal; calyx patelliform, ca. 2 mm in diam., deeply 4-lobed, lobes suborbicular, glabrous, not ciliate; corolla greenish, rotate, ca. 4 mm in diam., petals 4, ovate, ca. 2 mm, glabrous, not ciliate, basally slightly connate; stamens 4, shorter than petals, anthers ovoid; rudimentary ovary globose, apex rounded. Female flowers not known. Infructescences: 1-or 2-fruited; fruiting pedicels 2.5-3 mm; bracteoles 2, basal, narrowly ovate, not ciliate. Fruit red, subglobose, 3-3.5 mm in diam.; persistent calyx explanate, subquadrangular, 4-lobed, lobes subrounded, glabrous; persistent style evident, stigma discoid, 4-lobed; pyrenes 4, ellipsoidal, ca. 3 mm, ca. 1.5 mm in diam., both ends obtuse, abaxially convex, longitudinally 3-or 4-striate, nearly smooth, laterally smooth, endocarp leathery. Fl. May-Aug, fr. Oct-Nov.
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Mature height (meter) 4.5 - 5.5
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

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Distribution

Ilex nothofagifolia world distribution map, present in China, India, and Myanmar

Conservation status

Ilex nothofagifolia threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:83570-1
WFO ID wfo-0000729672
COL ID 3PFR4
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Synonyms

Ilex nothofagifolia Ilex oblata Ilex intricata var. oblata