Vasilis Teodoridis:
Aquifoliaceae | Ilex
19. Ilex chinensis Sims; Bot. Mag. t. 2043. 1819.
?? dong qing
Callicarpa cavaleriei H. Léveillé; Celastrus bodinieri H. Léveillé; Embelia rubroviolacea H. Léveillé; Ilex jinggangshanensis C. J. Tseng; I. myriadenia Hance; I. oldhamii Miquel; I. purpurea Hasskarl; I. purpurea var. myriadenia (Hance) Loesener; I. purpurea f. oldhamii (Miquel) Loesener; I. purpurea var. oldhamii (Miquel) Loesener.
Trees evergreen; to 15 m tall; bark gray-black. Current year’s branchlets gray; terete; thinly angular; older branchlets glabrous; with crescent-shaped; convex leaf scars; lenticels obscure; small. Plants glabrous; or sometimes villous on terminal buds; petioles; and adaxial midvein of young leaves of male plant. Petiole 8-10 mm; flat or narrowly sulcate adaxially; leaf blade deep brown; shiny when dry adaxially; elliptic or lanceolate; rarely ovate; 5-11 x 2-4 cm; thinly leathery to leathery; glabrous; rarely adaxially pilose on midvein when young; midvein flat adaxially; lateral veins 6-9 pairs; distinct abaxially; obscure adaxially; base cuneate or obtuse; margin crenate; or sometimes young leaf serrate; apex acuminate; acumen 5-10 mm. Inflorescences: cymes; solitary; axillary on current year’s branchlets; glabrous. Male inflorescences: cymes of order 3-5; 7-24-flowered; peduncles 7-14 mm; secondary axis 2-5 mm; pedicels ca. 2 mm; glabrous; flowers purplish or purple-red; 4- or 5-merous; calyx shallowly cup-shaped; lobes broadly deltoid; ciliate; corolla rotate; ca. 5 mm in diam.; petals reflexed at anthesis; ca. 2.5 x 2 mm; basally slightly connate; stamens shorter than petals; anthers elliptic; rudimentary ovary conical; inferior to 1 mm. Female inflorescences: cymes of order 2 or 3; 3-7-flowered; peduncles 3-10 mm; compressed; secondary axis poorly developed; pedicels 6-10 mm; calyx and corolla as in male flowers; staminodes ca. 1/2 as long as petals; sterile anthers cordate; ovary ovoid; stigma thickly discoid; inconspicuously 4- or 5-lobed. Fruit red; narrowly globose; 1-1.2 cm; 6-8 mm in diam.; pyrenes 4 or 5; narrowly lanceolate; 9-10 mm; ca. 2.5 mm in diam.; abaxially smooth; concave; trigonous in cross section; endocarp thickly leathery. Fl. Apr-Jul; fr. Jul-Dec.
Evergreen broad-leaved forests; forest margins on mountain slopes; sea level to 2000 m. Anhui; Fujian; Guangdong; Guangxi; Henan; Hubei; Hunan; Jiangsu; Jiangxi; Taiwan; Yunnan; Zhejiang [Japan].
Vasilis Teodoridis:
Aquifoliaceae | Ilex
19. Ilex chinensis Sims; Bot. Mag. t. 2043. 1819.
?? dong qing
Callicarpa cavaleriei H. Léveillé; Celastrus bodinieri H. Léveillé; Embelia rubroviolacea H. Léveillé; Ilex jinggangshanensis C. J. Tseng; I. myriadenia Hance; I. oldhamii Miquel; I. purpurea Hasskarl; I. purpurea var. myriadenia (Hance) Loesener; I. purpurea f. oldhamii (Miquel) Loesener; I. purpurea var. oldhamii (Miquel) Loesener.
Trees evergreen; to 15 m tall; bark gray-black. Current year’s branchlets gray; terete; thinly angular; older branchlets glabrous; with crescent-shaped; convex leaf scars; lenticels obscure; small. Plants glabrous; or sometimes villous on terminal buds; petioles; and adaxial midvein of young leaves of male plant. Petiole 8-10 mm; flat or narrowly sulcate adaxially; leaf blade deep brown; shiny when dry adaxially; elliptic or lanceolate; rarely ovate; 5-11 x 2-4 cm; thinly leathery to leathery; glabrous; rarely adaxially pilose on midvein when young; midvein flat adaxially; lateral veins 6-9 pairs; distinct abaxially; obscure adaxially; base cuneate or obtuse; margin crenate; or sometimes young leaf serrate; apex acuminate; acumen 5-10 mm. Inflorescences: cymes; solitary; axillary on current year’s branchlets; glabrous. Male inflorescences: cymes of order 3-5; 7-24-flowered; peduncles 7-14 mm; secondary axis 2-5 mm; pedicels ca. 2 mm; glabrous; flowers purplish or purple-red; 4- or 5-merous; calyx shallowly cup-shaped; lobes broadly deltoid; ciliate; corolla rotate; ca. 5 mm in diam.; petals reflexed at anthesis; ca. 2.5 x 2 mm; basally slightly connate; stamens shorter than petals; anthers elliptic; rudimentary ovary conical; inferior to 1 mm. Female inflorescences: cymes of order 2 or 3; 3-7-flowered; peduncles 3-10 mm; compressed; secondary axis poorly developed; pedicels 6-10 mm; calyx and corolla as in male flowers; staminodes ca. 1/2 as long as petals; sterile anthers cordate; ovary ovoid; stigma thickly discoid; inconspicuously 4- or 5-lobed. Fruit red; narrowly globose; 1-1.2 cm; 6-8 mm in diam.; pyrenes 4 or 5; narrowly lanceolate; 9-10 mm; ca. 2.5 mm in diam.; abaxially smooth; concave; trigonous in cross section; endocarp thickly leathery. Fl. Apr-Jul; fr. Jul-Dec.
Evergreen broad-leaved forests; forest margins on mountain slopes; sea level to 2000 m. Anhui; Fujian; Guangdong; Guangxi; Henan; Hubei; Hunan; Jiangsu; Jiangxi; Taiwan; Yunnan; Zhejiang [Japan].