Ilex serrata Thunb.

Species

Angiosperms > Aquifoliales > Aquifoliaceae > Ilex

Characteristics

Shrubs deciduous, 1-3 m tall; bark gray. Current year’s branchlets longitudinally rugose and sulcate; second year’s branchlets subterete, hirsute or glabrescent; lenticels present. Petiole 6-8 mm, adaxially deeply sulcate, hirsute or glabrescent; leaf blade gray-olivaceous when dry, elliptic, rarely ovate or obovate-elliptic, 2-9 × 1-4 cm, membranous, both surfaces hirsute or glabrescent on veins, midvein raised on both surfaces, lateral veins 6-8 pairs, raised abaxially, obscure adaxially, reticulate veins evident on both surfaces, base cuneate, margin densely sharply serrate, apex acuminate. Male inflorescences: cymes or compound cymes, 9-21-flowered, solitary, axillary; peduncles ca. 3 mm; secondary axis ca. 1.5 mm; pedicels 2-2.5 mm, puberulent; bracteoles basal, deltoid; flowers 4-or 5-merous; calyx 1.5-2 mm in diam., lobes deltoid, hirsute, ciliate; corolla rotate, ca. 4.5 mm in diam., petals oblong, basally slightly connate, margin erose, not ciliate; stamens shorter than petals, anthers oblong; rudimentary ovary conical, glabrous, apex acute. Female inflorescences: cymes of order 1 or 2, 1-3-flowered, solitary, rarely fasciculate, axillary; peduncles ca. 1.5 mm; pedicels 2-3 mm; flowers 4-6-merous; calyx as in male flowers; petals ovate, margin erose; staminodes ca. 1/2 as long as petals, sterile anthers sagittate; ovary ovoid, ca. 1.5 mm in diam., stigma discoid. Fruit red, globose, ca. 5 mm in diam.; fruiting pedicel 2-2.5 cm, hirsute; persistent calyx explanate, suborbicular, 5-or 6-lobed, lobes orbicular, hirsute, ciliate; persistent stigma discoid, shallowly 5-or 6-lobed; pyrenes 4 or 5, rarely 6, broadly ellipsoidal, 2-2.5 mm, 1-1.2 mm in diam., smooth, not striate, not sulcate, endocarp leathery. Fl. May, fr. Oct.
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Growth form shrub
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Foliage retention deciduous
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Mature width (meter) 2.0
Mature height (meter) 1.5 - 3.0
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Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Forest margins, shrub forests, mountain slopes; at elevations from 500-1,600 metres.
Light 4-8
Soil humidity 3-7
Soil texture 3-4
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Hardiness (USDA) 7-9

Usage

Uses environmental use medicinal
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Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
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Minimum temperature (C°) -18
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Images

Ilex serrata unspecified picture

Distribution

Ilex serrata world distribution map, present in China, Japan, and Korea (Democratic People's Republic of)

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:927288-1
WFO ID wfo-0001219375
COL ID 3PFWL
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Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Ilex argutidens Ilex nemotoi Ilex serrata f. subtilis Ilex sieboldii Ilex subtilis Ilex serrata Ilex serrata var. sieboldii Ilex serrata subsp. cathayensis Ilex serrata var. subtilis Ilex sieboldii var. subtilis