Ilex chuniana S. Y. Hu

Shrubs or small trees, evergreen, ca. 4 m tall. Branchlets slender, longitudinally striate, pubescent. Stipules persistent, minute; petiole 3-5 mm, puberulent, longitudinally sulcate; leaf blade olivaceous or brown when dry, not shiny, lanceolate, rarely narrowly elliptic, 3-5.5 × 0.9-1.5 cm, subleathery, both surfaces glabrous, midvein impressed adaxially, lateral veins 5 or 6 pairs, obscure on both surfaces, base acute or acuminate, margin bluntly crenulate-serrate, apex obtuse. Inflorescences: 1-flowered cymes, fasciculate, axillary. Male inflorescences: pedicels ca. 2 mm, glabrous; bracteoles 2, basal; flowers yellow-white, 4-merous; calyx patelliform, ca. 2 mm in diam., lobes ciliate; corolla rotate, ca. 4 mm in diam., petals ovate, ca. 1.5 mm; stamens ca. as long as petals, anthers ovoid; rudimentary ovary subglobose. Female flowers not known. Fruit red when dry, subglobose-ellipsoidal, ca. 5.5 mm, ca. 4.5 mm in diam.; fruiting pedicel ca. 2 mm, sparsely puberulent; persistent calyx explanate, quadrangular, ca. 2.5 mm in diam., ciliate; persistent stigma thickly discoid, 4-lobed; pyrenes 4, ca. 4.5 mm, ca. 3 mm in diam., abaxially palmately striate, not sulcate, sparsely puberulent, endocarp woody. Fl. Oct-Dec, fr. Nov-Jan.

S Guangdong (Taishan), Hainan.

● Mountain forests; ca. 1000 m.

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

Ilex chuniana là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Aquifoliaceae. Loài này được S.Y. Hu mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1951.

铁仔冬青（学名：Ilex chuniana）为冬青科冬青属的植物，是中国的特有植物。分布于中国大陆的广东、海南等地，生长于海拔1,000米的地区，见于山地林中，目前尚未由人工引种栽培。