Vasilis Teodoridis:
Aquifoliaceae | Ilex
170. Ilex goshiensis Hayata; J. Coll. Sci. Imp. Univ. Tokyo. 30(1): 54. 1911.
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Ilex hanceana Maximowicz f. goshiensis Yamamoto; nom. illeg. superfl.; I. hanceana f. rotundata Makino.
Shrubs or trees; evergreen; to 12 m tall; bark gray-brown. Branchlets slender; puberulent; third year’s branchlets longitudinally rugose; leaf scars raised; semicircular; lenticels conspicuous; current year’s branchlets longitudinally ridged; terminal buds conical; small; puberulent. Stipules deltoid; puberulent; apically acute; petiole 4-8 mm; adaxially longitudinally broadly and shallowly sulcate; puberulent; leaf blade brown-green when dry on both surfaces; adaxially slightly shiny; broadly elliptic or subrhombic-elliptic; 3-5 x 1.5-2.5 cm; leathery; abaxially minutely black glandular punctate; adaxially glabrous except on midvein; midvein slightly raised abaxially; slightly impressed or flattened and puberulent adaxially; lateral veins 4-6 pairs; obscure on both surfaces; reticulate veins obscure; base broadly cuneate or acute; margin entire; apex abruptly shortly acuminate; tip obtuse and retuse. Inflorescences: cymes; fasciculate; axillary. Male inflorescences: cymes of order 2 or 3; 3-7-flowered; puberulent or rarely glabrescent; bracts puberulent; tricuspidate; peduncles 4-5 mm; pedicels 2-3 mm; bracteoles minute; puberulent; flowers 4- or 5-merous; calyx patelliform; ca. 2 mm in diam.; puberulent; shallowly 4-lobed; rarely 5-lobed; lobes orbicular; densely ciliate; corolla rotate; 4-5 mm in diam.; petals 4; oblong; ca. 1.7 mm; basally slightly connate; stamens shorter than petals; anthers oblong; rudimentary ovary subglobose; central part slightly retuse. Female flowers not known. Infructescences: cymes of order 1(or 2); 1(or 3)-fruited; fruiting pedicels 3-5(-8) mm; cymes of order 2: peduncles ca. 5 mm. Fruit globose; ca. 4 mm in diam.; persistent calyx explanate; 4- or 5-lobed; ciliate; persistent stigma slightly raised; discoid; 4-lobed; pyrenes 4(or 5); subglobose; 1.7-2 mm; 1.2-1.8 mm in diam.; abaxially 3-striate; not sulcate; laterally smooth; endocarp leathery. Fl. and fr. Aug-Oct.
Dense forests; 100-1800 m. SW Fujian (Shanghang); Guangdong; Hainan (Baoting; Ledong); Taiwan (Taizhong; Xinzhu) [Japan (Ryukyu Islands)].