Ilex wenchowensis S. Y. Hu

Shrubs evergreen, small, 1.5-2 m tall. Branchlets green, longitudinally angular, pubescent. Petiole 1-2 mm, puberulent; leaf blade abaxially greenish, adaxially green, slightly shiny, ovate, 3-6.5 × 1.2-3 cm, leathery, both surfaces glabrous, midvein impressed pubescent adaxially, lateral veins 4 or 5 pairs, obscure abaxially, evident adaxially, base truncate or rounded, margin sinuate, with 3-7 pairs of spines, apex acuminate, with spine. Inflorescences: 1-flowered cymes, fasciculate, axillary on second year’s branchlets; flowers 4-merous. Male inflorescences: pedicels ca. 1 mm, puberulent; bracts 2, large, ciliate; calyx patelliform, ca. 2 mm in diam., deeply 4-lobed, lobes deltoid, apex obtuse, ciliate; corolla rotate, 6-7 mm in diam., petals oblong, ca. 3 × 2.5 mm, sparsely ciliate, basally slightly connate; stamens 4, ca. as long as petals, anthers ovoid; rudimentary ovary conical, ca. 1 mm, apex obtuse. Female flowers not known. Infructescences: fruiting pedicels 4-5 mm, puberulent; bracteoles 2, basal, ovate, ciliate. Fruit depressed globose, 5-6 mm, ca. 8 mm in diam., longitudinally sulcate; persistent calyx explanate; persistent stigma thinly discoid or navel- shaped; pyrenes 4, subglobose, ca. 5 mm, ca. 4.5 mm in diam., abaxially palmately striate, not sulcate and not longitudinally impressed, laterally reticulately striate and sulcate, endocarp woody. Fl. May, fr. Oct.

Zhejiang (Jinyun, Wenzhou).

● Thickets on slopes and in valleys; 600-900 m.

Ilex wenchowensis is a species of plant in the family Aquifoliaceae. It is endemic to China.

Ilex wenchowensis là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Aquifoliaceae. Loài này được S.Y. Hu mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1949.

温州冬青（学名：Ilex wenchowensis）是冬青科冬青属的植物，为中国的特有植物。分布于中国大陆的浙江等地，生长于海拔600米至850米的地区，见于山坡以及沟谷杂木林中，目前已由人工引种栽培。