Ilex pyrifolia C.J.Tseng

Species

Angiosperms > Aquifoliales > Aquifoliaceae > Ilex

Characteristics

Trees evergreen, small, ca. 2 m tall. Young branchlets castaneous, longitudinally ridged and sulcate, glabrous; older branchlets gray, longitudinally fissured, with circular or elliptic convex lenticels. Stipules triangular, minute; petiole 7-8 mm, sulcate adaxially, glabrous; leaf blade castaneous, shiny when dry, broadly elliptic, 4-6.5 × 3-4 cm, subleathery, both surfaces glabrous, midvein flat adaxially, lateral veins 7 or 8 pairs, raised abaxially, slightly impressed adaxially, anastomosing near margin, reticulate veins obscure adaxially, distinct abaxially, base rounded or obtuse, rarely cuneate, margin finely serrate (serrulate), teeth black, apex acuminate. Flowers not known. Infructescences: cymes of order 2, solitary, axillary, 2-fruited; peduncles ca. 4 mm; fruiting pedicels ca. 3 mm; persistent bracteoles 2, subbasal. Fruit deep red, globose, ca. 7 mm in diam.; persistent calyx patelliform, ca. 3 mm in diam., 4-lobed, lobes suborbicular; persistent stigma discoid, 4-lobed; pyrenes 4, oblong, ca. 4.5 mm, ca. 3 mm in diam., abaxially longitudinally broadly 1-sulcate, endocarp stony. Fl. unknown, fr. Nov.
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Distribution

Ilex pyrifolia world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:898002-1
WFO ID wfo-0001219342
COL ID 6N6XX
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Synonyms

Ilex pyrifolia