Ilex lihuaensis T. R. Dudley

Shrubs evergreen, ca. 2 m tall. Young branchlets dark brown; older branchlets gray-black, glabrescent. Petiole 3-9 mm, adaxially longitudinally sulcate, puberulent or glabrous; leaf blade abaxially greenish, adaxially green, elliptic or obovate-elliptic, (0.7-)1-3.5 × (0.4-)0.7-1.7 cm, thickly leathery, abaxially punctate, glabrous except at base, adaxially puberulent at base when young, midvein flat abaxially, deeply impressed, puberulent adaxially, lateral veins very inconspicuous on both surfaces, base cuneate, margin entire, apex retuse, not obtuse. Inflorescences: cymes, fasciculate or solitary, axillary, puberulent. Male inflorescences: cymes of order 1 or 2, 1-3-flowered; peduncles 3-6 mm; pedicels 4-8 mm; bracteoles 2, above middle; flowers 5- or 6-merous, rarely 7-merous; calyx patelliform, ca. 2 mm in diam., glabrous, lobes suborbicular, not ciliate; corolla white, rotate, ca. 5 mm in diam., petals 5 or 6, rarely 7, oblong, 4.5-5.5 mm, glabrous, apex rounded; stamens 5 or 6, rarely 7, ca. 1/2 as long as petals; rudimentary ovary subglobose. Female inflorescences: 1-flowered cymes, solitary or few fascicled, fascicles 2-flowered; pedicels 6-9 mm; bracteoles 2, below middle; calyx and corolla as in male flowers; staminodes 5-7, globose; ovary globose, stigma discoid. Fruit red, compressed globose, ca. 3 mm in diam.; fruiting pedicel 6-9 mm; persistent calyx explanate, ca. 2 mm in diam.; persistent stigma discoid; pyrenes 5 or 6, rarely 7, ellipsoidal, ca. 1.5 mm, abaxially raised striate, not sulcate, endocarp leathery. Fl. May, fr. unknown.

● Stream banks, mountains. S Guizhou (Libo).

Ilex rivularis Y. K. Li, Acta Phytotax. Sin. 24: 399. 1986, not Gardner (1842).

Ilex lihuaensis là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Aquifoliaceae. Loài này được T.R. Dudley mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1991.

溪畔冬青（学名：Ilex lihuaensis）为冬青科冬青属的植物，为中国的特有植物。分布于中国大陆的贵州等地，多生于山地溪边，目前已由人工引种栽培。