Ilex tugitakayamensis Sasaki

Species

Angiosperms > Aquifoliales > Aquifoliaceae > Ilex

Characteristics

Trees evergreen. Branches robust, glabrous; branchlets brown when dry, angular-plicate, lenticels absent; leaf scars deltoid. Petiole 2-2.5 cm, adaxially shallowly and broadly sulcate, glabrous; leaf blade yellowish brown or brown when dry, elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 10-14 × 3-5 cm, thickly leathery, both surfaces glabrous, midvein raised on both surfaces, lateral veins 12-14 pairs, raised on both surfaces, furcate and anastomosing near margin, reticulate veins inconspicuous on both surfaces, base cuneate, margin entire, apex shortly acuminate. Flowers not known. Infructescences: cymes, 5-7-fruited, solitary, axillary on current year’s branchlets; peduncles 8-9 mm, compressed, puberulent; bracts linear, sparsely puberulent; fruiting pedicels very short, 0.5-1 mm. Fruit ellipsoidal-globose, 5-7 mm, ca. 5 mm in diam.; persistent calyx explanate, ca. 4 mm in diam., shallowly 5-lobed, lobes deltoid, densely pubescent and ciliate; persistent stigma navel-like, inconspicuously 5-or 6-lobed; pyrenes 4-6, ellipsoidal, ca. 4 mm, ca. 2.5 mm in diam., abaxially flat or slightly sulcate, endocarp leathery, smooth. Fl. unknown, fr. Oct.
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Distribution

Ilex tugitakayamensis world distribution map, present in China

Conservation status

Ilex tugitakayamensis threat status: Endangered

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:83826-1
WFO ID wfo-0001219405
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Synonyms

Ilex tugitakayamensis