Vasilis Teodoridis:
Aquifoliaceae | Ilex
181. Ilex fukienensis S. Y. Hu; J. Arnold Arbor. 31: 253. 1950.
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Shrubs evergreen; 3-4 m tall; glabrous throughout or puberulent on current year’s branchlets and pedicels. Branchlets gray; terete; slender; longitudinally fissured and rugose; lenticels absent; current year’s branchlets longitudinally striate and sulcate; terminal buds conical; glabrous. Stipules deltoid; minute; apically acute; petiole 5-7 mm; shallowly sulcate; distal half rugose; winged by decurrent leaf blade; leaf blade brown-olivaceous when dry; opaque on both surfaces; ovate; ovate-oblong; ovate-elliptic; or elliptic-lanceolate; 5-10 x 1.5-3.5 cm; leathery; both surfaces glabrous; midvein deeply impressed adaxially; lateral veins 9 or 10 pairs; anastomosing near margin; obscure on both surfaces; reticulate veins obscure abaxially; evident adaxially; base rounded; rarely obtuse; margin entire; apex caudate-acuminate; acumen 8-15 mm. Inflorescences: cymes; fasciculate; axillary on second year’s branchlets; basal bracts leathery; tricuspidate; flowers 4-merous. Male inflorescences: cymes of order 2 or 3; 3-5-flowered; peduncles 3-5 mm; pedicels ca. 3 mm; bracteoles 2; basal; or absent; calyx patelliform; ca. 2.5 mm in diam.; glabrous; 4-lobed; lobes deltoid-ovate; margin erose; ciliate; corolla rotate; ca. 4 mm in diam.; petals ovate; 2-2.5 mm; basally rather connate; stamens nearly as long as petals; rudimentary ovary pulvinate; rostellate. Female inflorescences: 1-flowered cymes; pedicels ca. 5 mm; bracteoles 2; basal; apex acute; ciliate; calyx and corolla as in male flowers; staminodes ca. 1/3 as long as petals; sterile anthers sagittate; glabrous; apex apiculate; ovary subglobose; styliferous; stigma capitate; 4-lobed. Fruit globose; ca. 5 mm in diam.; persistent calyx explanate; ca. 3 mm in diam.; persistent stigma discoid; pyrenes 2; ovoid; ca. 2.5 mm; ca. 2 mm in diam.; abaxially reticulately striate; not sulcate. Fl. Apr-Jun; fr. Aug-Oct.
? Forests; thickets on mountains; 600-900 m. Fujian.
There are two forms distinguishable by the indumentum of the current year’s branchlets: f. fukienensis has glabrous branchlets; while f. puberula C. J. Tseng & H. H. Liu (Bull. Bot. Res.; Harbin 1(1-2): 34. 1981) has puberulent branchlets.