Vasilis Teodoridis:
Aquifoliaceae | Ilex
34. Ilex angulata Merrill & Chun; Sunyatsenia. 2: 266. 1935.
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Shrubs or trees; evergreen; 4-10 m tall; bark gray-white. Branchlets zigzag; slender; ridged; narrowly sulcate; puberulent; older branchlets angular-ridged; fissured; with semicircular; slightly raised leaf scars; lenticels absent; terminal buds absent. Petiole 4-6 mm; adaxially sulcate; leaf blade brown-olivaceous when dry; elliptic or broadly elliptic; 3.5-5 x 1.5-2 cm; papery or membranous when young; both surfaces glabrous; midvein glabrous abaxially; impressed and glabrous or puberulent adaxially; lateral veins 5-7 pairs; slightly raised on both surfaces; furcate and anastomosing near margin; reticulate veins indistinct on both surfaces; base cuneate or acute; margin entire; slightly recurved; rarely apically sparsely serrulate; apex acuminate. Inflorescences: cymes of order 1 or 2; 1-3-flowered; solitary; axillary on current year’s branchlets; peduncles 3-5 mm; puberulent; bracts deltoid; sparsely puberulent; pedicels 3-5 mm; bracteoles 2; basal; 1-flowered pedicels ca. 1 cm; flowers pink; 5-merous. Male inflorescences often 3-flowered; calyx patelliform; 3-5 mm in diam.; membranous; shallowly 5-lobed; lobes ovate; 1-1.5 mm; not ciliate; apex rounded; corolla rotate; 6-8 mm in diam.; petals ovate; ca. 3 mm; basally slightly connate; stamens ca. 3/4 as long as petals; anthers oblong; rudimentary ovary globose; ca. 1 mm in diam. Female inflorescences: calyx and corolla as in male flowers; staminodes ca. 1/3 as long as petals; sterile anthers sagittate; ovary ovoid; stigma mammilliform. Fruit red; ellipsoidal; 6-8 mm; 5-6 mm in diam.; longitudinally angular; persistent calyx explanate; ca. 3.5 mm in diam.; lobes orbicular-ovate; not ciliate; persistent stigma capitate; pyrenes 5 or 6; ca. 5 mm; ca. 1.5 mm in diam.; abaxially 3-striate and sulcate; middle ridge often deeply impressed; endocarp woody. Fl. Apr; fr. Jul-Oct.
? Thickets; sparse forests on mountains; 400-500 m. Guangxi; Hainan.
Vasilis Teodoridis:
Aquifoliaceae | Ilex
34. Ilex angulata Merrill & Chun; Sunyatsenia. 2: 266. 1935.
???? leng zhi dong qing
Shrubs or trees; evergreen; 4-10 m tall; bark gray-white. Branchlets zigzag; slender; ridged; narrowly sulcate; puberulent; older branchlets angular-ridged; fissured; with semicircular; slightly raised leaf scars; lenticels absent; terminal buds absent. Petiole 4-6 mm; adaxially sulcate; leaf blade brown-olivaceous when dry; elliptic or broadly elliptic; 3.5-5 x 1.5-2 cm; papery or membranous when young; both surfaces glabrous; midvein glabrous abaxially; impressed and glabrous or puberulent adaxially; lateral veins 5-7 pairs; slightly raised on both surfaces; furcate and anastomosing near margin; reticulate veins indistinct on both surfaces; base cuneate or acute; margin entire; slightly recurved; rarely apically sparsely serrulate; apex acuminate. Inflorescences: cymes of order 1 or 2; 1-3-flowered; solitary; axillary on current year’s branchlets; peduncles 3-5 mm; puberulent; bracts deltoid; sparsely puberulent; pedicels 3-5 mm; bracteoles 2; basal; 1-flowered pedicels ca. 1 cm; flowers pink; 5-merous. Male inflorescences often 3-flowered; calyx patelliform; 3-5 mm in diam.; membranous; shallowly 5-lobed; lobes ovate; 1-1.5 mm; not ciliate; apex rounded; corolla rotate; 6-8 mm in diam.; petals ovate; ca. 3 mm; basally slightly connate; stamens ca. 3/4 as long as petals; anthers oblong; rudimentary ovary globose; ca. 1 mm in diam. Female inflorescences: calyx and corolla as in male flowers; staminodes ca. 1/3 as long as petals; sterile anthers sagittate; ovary ovoid; stigma mammilliform. Fruit red; ellipsoidal; 6-8 mm; 5-6 mm in diam.; longitudinally angular; persistent calyx explanate; ca. 3.5 mm in diam.; lobes orbicular-ovate; not ciliate; persistent stigma capitate; pyrenes 5 or 6; ca. 5 mm; ca. 1.5 mm in diam.; abaxially 3-striate and sulcate; middle ridge often deeply impressed; endocarp woody. Fl. Apr; fr. Jul-Oct.
? Thickets; sparse forests on mountains; 400-500 m. Guangxi; Hainan.