Ilex yunnanensis Franch.

Species

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Characteristics

Shrubs or trees, evergreen, 1-12 m tall. Young branchlets terete, longitudinally ridged and sulcate, densely golden yellow villous; older branchlets densely ferruginous tomentose, with subcircular, raised leaf scars, lenticels absent. Petiole 2-6 mm, densely tomentose; leaf blade black-brown to brown when dry, oblong, oblong-lanceolate, ovate, ovate-lanceolate, or elliptic, (1-)2-4 × (0.4-)1-2.5 cm, thinly to thickly leathery, glabrous except on midvein adaxially, midvein abaxially flat or raised, glabrous, adaxially raised, densely pubescent, lateral veins obscure on both surfaces, base rounded or obtuse, margin crenulate-serrate or crenate-serrate, teeth often aristate, or margin entire or spinulose-serrate, apex rarely obtuse or subacute, acute and mucronate, or acuminate, spiny or not. Inflorescences: cymes, solitary, axillary to leaves or on scales of current year’s branchlets, pubescent. Male inflorescences: cymes of order (1 or)2, (1-)3-flowered; peduncles 8-14 mm; pedicels 2-4 mm; flowers 4(-6)-merous, white, or pink to red at high elevations; calyx patelliform, ca. 2 mm in diam., deeply 4-lobed, lobes deltoid, apex acute or obtuse, ciliate or not; petals ovate, ca. 2 × 1.5 mm, basally slightly connate, apex obtuse; stamens shorter than petals, anthers ovoid-globose; rudimentary ovary conical, apex obtuse. Female inflorescences: cymes of order 1(or 2), 1(-3)-flowered; pedicels 3-14 mm; bracteoles 1 or 2 on distal half; calyx and corolla as in male flowers; staminodes ca. 1/2 as long as petals, sterile anthers sagittate; ovary globose, ca. 1 mm in diam., longitudinally 4-sulcate, styles present, ca. 0.5 mm, stigma discoid, 4-lobed. Fruit red, globose, 5-6 mm in diam.; fruiting pedicel 5-15 mm, glabrous; persistent calyx explanate, quadrangular, ciliate or not; persistent stigma discoid, raised; pyrenes 4, oblong, ca. 5 mm, ca. 3 mm in diam., cross section subtriangular, abaxially smooth, not striate, not sulcate, endocarp leathery. Fl. May-Jul, fr. Aug-Nov.
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An evergreen shrub. It grows 1-3 m high. The branches have rusty iron coloured hairs. The leaves are alternate and broadly sword shaped. They are 2-4 cm long by 1-2 cm wide. The tip tapers an the base is round. There are teeth along the edge. The flowers are small and white. Male and female flowers are on separate plants. The fruit are fleshy and red, They occur singly. They are 5-6 mm across. There is one seed.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality dioecy
Pollination entomogamy
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Mature height (meter) 1.0 - 4.0
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Nitrogen fixer -
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Environment

Evergreen broad-leaf forests, thickets, Tsuga forests, margins of woods, shrub forests in valleys or mountains; at elevations from 1,100-3,500 metres.
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A subtropical plant. In southern China it grows in evergreen broad-leaved forests between 1,100-3,500 m above sea level. In Sichuan and Yunnan.
Light 4-9
Soil humidity 4-7
Soil texture 2-5
Soil acidity 3-7
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 6-8

Usage

The young shoots are used as a substitute for tea.
Uses medicinal tea
Edible leaves shoots
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

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

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Distribution

Ilex yunnanensis world distribution map, present in China and Myanmar

Conservation status

Ilex yunnanensis threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:83885-1
WFO ID wfo-0001078608
COL ID 3PG4D
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Ilex yunnanensis Ilex rockii Ilex yunnanensis var. brevipedunculata Ilex yunnanensis var. yunnanensis Ilex yunnanensis var. eciliata

Lower taxons

Ilex yunnanensis var. parvifolia Ilex yunnanensis var. gentilis