Vasilis Teodoridis:
Aquifoliaceae | Ilex
12. Ilex linii C. J. Tseng; Acta Sci. Nat. Univ. Amoiensis. 9: 305. 1962.
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Trees evergreen; ca. 10 m tall. Young branchlets purple-black; glabrous; longitudinally plicate; old branchlets brown; with sparse inconspicuous lenticels; terminal buds ovoid; hirsute. Petiole terete; 1-1.3 cm; abaxially carinate; adaxially flat; glabrous; leaf blade oblong or elliptic-oblong; 7-13 x 3-4 cm; leathery; glabrous; midvein raised on both surfaces; lateral veins 10-14 pairs; and dense reticulate veins slightly raised on both surfaces; base cuneate or obtuse; margin entire; recurved; apex acuminate. Flowers not known. Infructescences: cymes; 1-3-fruited; solitary; axillary; peduncles 5-7 mm; densely pubescent; fruiting pedicels 5-7 mm; densely pubescent or glabrescent. Fruit ellipsoidal; ca. 10 mm; 5-7 mm in diam.; persistent calyx ca. 5 mm in diam.; 5-lobed; persistent stigma thinly discoid; pyrenes 5; oblong; ca. 7 mm; ca. 4 mm in diam.; abaxially longitudinally and deeply 1-sulcate; rugose when dry; endocarp leathery. Fl. unknown; fr. Aug-Nov.
? Evergreen broad-leaved forests; Pinus massoniana forests; 500-1200 m. Fujian; Guangdong; Jiangxi; Zhejiang (Taishun).