Ilex estriata C. J. Tseng

Shrubs evergreen. Second year’s branchlets gray-brown, terete, longitudinally fissured; current year’s branchlets gray-brown, ridged, puberulent or glabrescent; terminal buds conical, puberulent. Petiole 5-6 mm, puberulent or glabrescent; leaf blade abaxially brownish, adaxially olivaceous, shiny when dry, elliptic or oblong-elliptic, rarely ovate-elliptic, 7-8.5 × ca. 3 cm, papery, both surfaces glabrous, midvein raised on both surfaces, lateral veins 8-10 pairs, conspicuous abaxially, obscure adaxially, base obtuse, margin entire, apex abruptly caudate-acuminate, acumen 1-1.5 cm. Flowers not known. Infructescences: 1-fruited cymes, fasciculate, fascicles 4- or 5-fruited, axillary; fruiting pedicels 4-6 mm, puberulent; persistent bracteoles 2, basal, deltoid-ovate, puberulent. Fruit (immature) black when dry, globose, ca. 3 mm in diam.; persistent calyx 4-lobed, lobes deltoid or deltoid-ovate, puberulent, ciliate; persistent stigma thickly discoid or discoid; pyrenes 4, oblong, ca. 3 mm, ca. 1.5 mm in diam., abaxially smooth, not striate or sulcate, endocarp leathery. Fl. and fr. unknown.

● Forest margins or thickets on mountain slopes. Sichuan.

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

平核冬青（学名：Ilex estriata）为冬青科冬青属的植物，是中国的特有植物。分布于中国大陆的四川等地，生长于海拔1,000米的地区，见于山坡林缘及灌丛中，目前尚未由人工引种栽培。