Ilex pyrifolia C. J. Tseng

Trees evergreen, small, ca. 2 m tall. Young branchlets castaneous, longitudinally ridged and sulcate, glabrous; older branchlets gray, longitudinally fissured, with circular or elliptic convex lenticels. Stipules triangular, minute; petiole 7-8 mm, sulcate adaxially, glabrous; leaf blade castaneous, shiny when dry, broadly elliptic, 4-6.5 × 3-4 cm, subleathery, both surfaces glabrous, midvein flat adaxially, lateral veins 7 or 8 pairs, raised abaxially, slightly impressed adaxially, anastomosing near margin, reticulate veins obscure adaxially, distinct abaxially, base rounded or obtuse, rarely cuneate, margin finely serrate (serrulate), teeth black, apex acuminate. Flowers not known. Infructescences: cymes of order 2, solitary, axillary, 2-fruited; peduncles ca. 4 mm; fruiting pedicels ca. 3 mm; persistent bracteoles 2, subbasal. Fruit deep red, globose, ca. 7 mm in diam.; persistent calyx patelliform, ca. 3 mm in diam., 4-lobed, lobes suborbicular; persistent stigma discoid, 4-lobed; pyrenes 4, oblong, ca. 4.5 mm, ca. 3 mm in diam., abaxially longitudinally broadly 1-sulcate, endocarp stony. Fl. unknown, fr. Nov.

Sichuan (Yingjing).

● Forests; 1100-3000 m.

Ilex pyrifolia là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Aquifoliaceae. Loài này được C.J. Tseng mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1981.

梨叶冬青（学名：Ilex pyrifolia）为冬青科冬青属的植物，为中国的特有植物。分布在中国大陆的四川等地，一般生长在林中，目前已由人工引种栽培。