Vasilis Teodoridis:
Aquifoliaceae | Ilex
166. Ilex kobuskiana S. Y. Hu; J. Arnold Arbor. 31: 236. 1950.
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Shrubs or trees; evergreen; 6-15 m tall. Current year’s branchlets subterete; longitudinally angular; glabrous; second to third year’s branchlets longitudinally fissured; lenticels numerous; conspicuous; leaf scars narrowly crescent-shaped; flattened; terminal buds broadly ovoid; puberulent. Stipules deltoid; apically acute; petiole 1-1.2 cm; glabrous; abaxially rugose; adaxially longitudinally and deeply sulcate; leaf blade brown; shiny when dry; ovate; elliptic; or oblong; 6-9 x 1.5-4.5 cm; thickly leathery; abaxially punctate; both surfaces globose; midvein flattened or slightly raised adaxially; lateral veins 9 or 10 pairs; anastomosing near margin; conspicuous abaxially; obscure adaxially; reticulate veins evident abaxially only; base rounded or obtuse; rarely cuneate; margin entire; apex abruptly and shortly acuminate; acumen 5-7 mm; retuse or obtuse. Inflorescences: cymes; fasciculate; axillary on second year’s branchlets; bracts puberulent. Male inflorescences: cymes of order 2; 3-flowered; peduncles 1.5-3 mm; pedicels ca. 2 mm; glabrescent; bracteoles 2; basal; flowers 5- or 6-merous; calyx patelliform; ca. 3.5 mm in diam.; shallowly 6-lobed; lobes orbicular; ciliate; corolla rotate; 6-7 mm in diam.; petals obovate-elliptic; ca. 3 mm; basally slightly connate; stamens ca. as long as petals; anthers oblong; rudimentary ovary pulvinate; apex obtuse. Female inflorescences: 1-flowered cymes; pedicels 5-8 mm; puberulent; bracteoles 2; median; calyx ca. 4 mm in diam.; 6-lobed; lobes orbicular; ciliate; petals 6-8; ovate-oblong; ca. 3 mm; basally slightly connate; staminodes ca. 3/4 as long as petals; sterile anther sagittate; ovary ovoid; stigma navel-like. Fruit red; ovoid; 4-6 mm in diam.; persistent calyx explanate; orbicular; lobes ciliate; persistent stigma navel-like; pyrenes 6; ellipsoidal; ca. 4 mm; 1.8-2 mm in diam.; both ends pointed; longitudinally striate; not sulcate; endocarp leathery. Fl. May-Jul; fr. Jun-Nov.
Evergreen broad-leaved forests; mountain slopes; 500-1600 m. E and N Guangdong (Dabu; Ruyuan); Hainan [Vietnam].