Vasilis Teodoridis:
Dipentodontaceae | Perrottetia
1. Perrottetia racemosa (Oliver) Loesener in Engler & Prantl; Nat. Pflanzenfam.; Nachtr. 1: 224. 1897.
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Ilex racemosa Oliver; Hooker’s Icon. Pl. 19: t. 1863. 1889; Perrottetia macrocarpa C. Y. Chang.
Shrubs; 1-4 m tall; dioecious. Branches and branchlets purplish brown; puberulent when young; glabrescent. Stipules ca. 1 mm; membranous; caducous. Petiole 0.5-2 cm; leaf blade long elliptic to narrowly ovate; 5-15 x 1.8-5.5 cm; papery; abaxially puberulent along midvein and secondary veins but ± glabrescent; adaxially glabrous; midvein and secondary veins abaxially elevated and adaxially ± flat; base slightly asymmetric and broadly cuneate to subrounded; margin sharply serrulate; crenulate; or rarely subentire; apex caudate-acuminate; cauda usually slightly curved. Inflorescences thyrses in a raceme; 2-4 cm at anthesis but on female plants to ca. 7 cm in fruit; puberulent. Flowers white; 4- or 5-merous. Sepals and petals similar but petal margin more distinctly fimbriate and slightly wider; triangular; ca. 1 mm on male flowers and ca. 0.5 mm on female flowers; persistent on female plants in fruit; apex acute. Pedicel ca. 1.5 mm at anthesis; puberulent. Male flowers 2-3 mm in diam.; stamens ca. 1.5 mm; inserted on disk margin; exserted from perianth; anthers ellipsoid; ca. 0.5 mm; disk compressed and flat. Female flowers ca. 1 mm in diam.; disk slightly cup-shaped; ovary 2-loculed; with 2 ovules per locule; style ca. 0.5 mm; persistent in fruit; apically 2-lobed. Berry red or dark red; subglobose; 2-3(-5) mm in diam.; apex rounded. Seeds 1 or 2 per locule. Fl. May-Sep; fr. Aug-Nov.
? Mixed broad-leaved and deciduous forests; forest margins; woodlands; scrub; valleys; riverbanks; 500-2900 m. Chongqing; Guangxi; Guizhou; SW Hubei; NW Hunan; Sichuan; S and SE Yunnan.