Vasilis Teodoridis:
Aquifoliaceae | Ilex
194. Ilex micrococca Maximowicz; Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint Pétersbourg; sér. 7. 29(3): 39. 1881.
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Ilex micrococca var. longifolia Hayata; I. micrococca f. luteocarpa H. Ohba & S. Akiyama; I. micrococca f. pilosa S. Y. Hu; I. micrococca f. tsangii T. R. Dudley; I. pseudogodajam Franchet.
Trees deciduous; 12-20 m tall. Branchlets thick; glabrous or pubescent; with conspicuous; large; circular or oblong; often coalescent white lenticels. Stipules broadly deltoid; small; petiole 1.5-3.2 cm; slender; glabrous; abaxially plicate-rugose; ada xially flat; leaf blade abaxially greenish; adaxially deep green; ovate; ovate-elliptic; or ovate-oblong; 7-13 x 3-5 cm; membranous or papery; both surfaces glabrous or abaxially pubescent; midvein slightly impressed adaxially; lateral veins 5-8 pairs; reticulate veins raised on both surfaces; base rounded or broadly cuneate; often oblique; margin subentire or aristate- serrate; apex long acuminate. Inflorescences: compound cymes; cymules of order 3 or 4; solitary; axillary on current year’s branchlets; glabrous; peduncles 9-12 mm; plicate; rugose; secondary axis 2-7 mm; bracts absent; tertiary axis with bracts broadly deltoid; acute; pedicels 2-3 mm; glabrous or pilose; bracteole 1; basal; deltoid. Male flowers 5- or 6-merous; calyx patelliform; shallowly 5- or 6-lobed; lobes obtuse; glabrous or ciliate; or abaxially pilose; corolla rotate; petals oblong; 1.2-1.5 mm; basally slightly connate; stamens ca. as long as petals; anthers ovoid-oblong; rudimentary ovary subglobose and rostellate. Female flowers 6-8-merous; calyx deeply 6-lobed; lobes obtuse; ciliate; petals oblong; ca. 1 mm; basally slightly connate; staminodes ca. 1/2 as long as petals; sterile anthers sagittate; ovary conical-ovoid; ca. 1 mm in diam.; stigma discoid. Fruit red or yellow; globose; ca. 3 mm in diam.; persistent calyx explanate; persistent stigma thickly discoid; convex; 6-8-lobed; pyrenes 6-8; ellipsoidal; ca. 2 mm; ca. 1 mm in diam.; ends obtuse; abaxially slightly rugose; longitudinally 1-sulcate; laterally smooth; endocarp leathery. Fl. May-Jun; fr. Jul-Oct.
Evergreen broad-leaved forests; mountains; 500-1900 m. Anhui; Fujian; Guangdong; Guangxi; Guizhou; Hainan; Hubei; Hunan; Jiangxi; Sichuan; Taiwan; Xizang; Yunnan; Zhejiang [Japan; Vietnam].