Vasilis Teodoridis:
Aquifoliaceae | Ilex
154. Ilex elmerrilliana S. Y. Hu; J. Arnold Arbor. 31: 229. 1950.
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Ilex subrotundifolia C. J. Qi & Q. Z. Lin (1999); not Steyermark (1952).
Shrubs or small trees; evergreen; 2-7 m tall; bark gray- brown. Current year’s branchlets red-brown; longitudinally angular and ridged; glabrous; second and third year’s branchlets gray-brown; slightly stout; longitudinally fissured; lenticels elliptic; numerous but inconspicuous; leaf scars slightly raised; semicircular; terminal buds narrowly conical; bud scales loose; glabrous; ciliate. Stipules deltoid; minute; glabrous; petiole 4-8 mm; adaxially narrowly sulcate; glabrous; leaf blade adaxially deep green; shiny; elliptic or oblong-elliptic; 5-9 x 2-3.5(-6.5) cm; thickly leathery; both surfaces glabrous; midvein impressed adaxially; lateral veins and reticulate veins obscure on both surfaces; base cuneate; obtuse; or rounded; margin entire; sometimes revolute; apex acuminate or shortly obtusely pointed. Inflorescences: cymes; fasciculate; axillary on second or current year’s branchlets; bracts ovate; glabrous. Male inflorescences: cymes of order 1 or 2; 1-3-flowered; pedicels 5-10 mm; glabrous; bracteoles 2; subbasal; flowers white; 5-8-merous; calyx patelliform; ca. 3.5 mm in diam.; lobes deltoid; not ciliate; corolla rotate; 6-7 mm in diam.; petals oblong; ca. 3.5 x 2.5 mm; not ciliate; basally slightly connate; stamens ca. as long as petals; anthers ovoid-oblong; rudimentary ovary conical; apex obscurely lobed. Female inflorescences: 1-flowered cymes; pedicels 4-6 mm; glabrous or puberulent; base bracteolate; calyx as in male flowers; petals free; oblong; ca. 2 mm; staminodes ca. 1/2 as long as petals; sterile anthers sagittate; ovary subglobose; ca. 1 mm in diam.; style evident; stigma capitate. Fruit red; globose; 4-5 mm in diam.; fruiting pedicel 5-10 mm; glabrous or puberulent; persistent calyx explanate; ca. 4 mm in diam.; lobes acute; persistent style evident; ca. 0.5 mm; stigma capitate; pyrenes 6 or 7; oblong; ca. 3.5 mm; ca. 1.5 mm in diam.; smooth; abaxially with a single slender ridge; slightly branched toward lower end; endocarp leathery. Fl. Apr-May; fr. Jul-Nov.
? Evergreen broad-leaved forests; shrubby areas; forest margins; (200-)500-1500 m. S Anhui; Fujian; Guangdong; Guangxi; Guizhou; Hubei; Hunan; Jiangxi; Sichuan (Junlian); Zhejiang.