Ilex oblonga C.J.Tseng

Species

Angiosperms > Aquifoliales > Aquifoliaceae > Ilex

Characteristics

Trees evergreen, ca. 20 m tall. Young branchlets castaneous-purple, longitudinally ridged, glabrous; second year’s branchlets castaneous or brown, subterete, with raised elliptic lenticels; terminal buds conical, puberulent or glabrescent. Petiole 8-15 mm, glabrous, adaxially sulcate; leaf blade brown when dry, oblong-elliptic or elliptic, rarely ovate-elliptic, 7.5-9.5 × 2.7-3.6 cm, leathery, both surfaces glabrous, abaxially glandular punctate, midvein impressed or subflat adaxially, lateral veins 7-9 pairs, anastomosing near margin, reticulate veins ± distinct adaxially, base attenuate-obtuse or obtuse, rarely rounded, margin sparsely crenulate, apex long acuminate or acuminate. Flowers not known. Infructescences: 1-fruited cymes, fasciculate, fascicles 2-4-fruited, axillary; fruiting pedicels 2-4 mm, pubescent; bracteoles 2, subbasal. Fruit red, oblong or obovoid-oblong, 4-4.5 mm, ca. 3 mm in diam., sulcate when dry; persistent calyx ca. 1.5 mm in diam., 4-lobed, lobes broadly deltoid; persistent stigma thinly discoid; pyrenes 4, oblong-ellipsoidal, ca. 3.5 mm, ca. 2 mm in diam., abaxially impressed, irregularly striate and sulcate, sometimes rugose and pitted, endocarp scabrous, stony. Fl. unknown, fr. Dec.
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Distribution

Ilex oblonga world distribution map, present in China

Conservation status

Ilex oblonga threat status: Endangered

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:897999-1
WFO ID wfo-0001219596
COL ID 3PFRD
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Synonyms

Ilex oblonga