Alias: Ilex spinosa, Ilex glabra.
It is a variety of Ilex spinosa.
Evergreen trees, 4- 10 meters high; Branchlets are cylindrical, chestnut brown, slightly angular, glabrous or become glabrous.
Leaf blade is leathery or thickly leathery, lanceolate, oblanceolate, ovate-lanceolate or elliptic, and there is no hair on the main vein.
Male inflorescence: Cymes consisting of 3 flowers are clustered in leaf axils of biennial branches, with total pedicels about 1 mm and 1 bracts at the base, which are triangular and ciliate; Pedicel about 3 mm long, with 2 ciliate bracteoles at the base; Calyx discoid, about 1.8 mm in diameter, glabrous, 4-lobed, lobes broadly triangular, 0.5 mm long and 0.5- 1 mm wide, with obtuse apex and ciliate; Corolla radial, pale yellow, petals 4, obovate-elliptic, 3-3.5 mm long, about 1.5 mm wide, slightly connate at the base; Stamens 4, alternate with petals, shorter than petals, anthers ovoid; Degenerate ovary subglobose.
Female flowers are not seen.
Infructescence is often 2-5 clusters in leaf axils;
The fruit is nearly spherical, with a diameter of 10- 12 mm, red at maturity, wrinkled when dry, persistent calyx spreading, with a diameter of about 3 mm, and a thick disk-shaped or papillary persistent stigma at the top; The pedicel is 3-4 mm long and has 2 bracteoles at the base; Nucleation 4, with inverted oval outline, triangular cross section, slightly concave top, 6-9 mm long, 3-4 mm wide back, irregular wrinkles and holes, and 1 longitudinal ridge in the center; Endocarp stony.
The flowering period is from March to May, and the fruiting period is 10- 1 1 month.
Produced in Zhejiang and Hunan (Changsha) and Guangxi (Guilin); Born in hilly and mountainous forests.
(Excerpted from Flora of China.)