Ilex graciliflora Champ. ex Benth.

Trees evergreen, 6-9 m tall. Young branchlets subterete, longitudinally ridged, slightly puberulent; second year’s branchlets glabrous, longitudinally fissured and plicate; third year’s branchlets castaneous, with flat, deltoid leaf scars. Leaves on first to third year’s branchlets; petiole 1-1.5 cm, linear-sulcate, glabrous or minutely puberulent, distal half winged by decurrent leaf base; leaf blade abaxially greenish, adaxially green, shiny, obovate-elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 2-7.5 × 1.5-3.5 cm, thickly leathery, both surfaces glabrous, midvein impressed adaxially, lateral veins 5-7 pairs, raised abaxially, obscure adaxially, reticulate veins loosely evident abaxially, base obtuse or acute, margin sparsely minutely serrate or subentire, apex retuse, rarely acute. Inflorescences: cymes, fasciculate, axillary on current year’s branchlets; bracts ovate-deltoid, puberulent, apex acute or tricuspidate; flowers white, 4-merous. Male inflorescences: cymes of order 2, 3-flowered; peduncles 1-2 mm; pedicels 3-6 mm, both surfaces sparsely puberulent or glabrescent; bracteoles 1 or 2, basal or near base; calyx patelliform, ca. 2 mm in diam., 4-lobed, lobes deltoid, apex obtuse or rounded, ciliate; petals 4, reflexed, oblong, ca. 2.5 mm, ciliate, basally connate; stamens 4, shorter than petals, anthers oblong-ovoid; rudimentary ovary subglobose-ovoid, apex obtuse, indistinctly 4-lobed. Female inflorescences: 1-flowered cymes; bracts ovate; pedicels ca. 4 mm; bracteoles 2, basal; calyx as in male flowers; petals free, oblong-obovate, ca. 2 mm; staminodes ca. 2/3 as long as petals, sterile anthers sagittate; ovary globose-ovoid, ca. 1.5 mm in diam., stigma discoid. Fruit red, globose, 5-6 mm in diam.; fruiting pedicel ca. 6 mm; persistent calyx explanate, suborbicular, ca. 2 mm in diam.; persistent stigma thinly discoid, flat; pyrenes 4, subglobose, ca. 4 mm, ca. 3 mm in diam., rugose, irregularly reticulately striate and sulcate, abaxially shallowly depressed, endocarp woody. Fl. Apr, fr. Oct-Feb.

● Woods, thickets; low to middle elevations. Hong Kong (including Lantau Island).

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

Ilex graciliflora là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Aquifoliaceae. Loài này được Champ. ex Benth. mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1852.

纤花冬青（学名：Ilex graciliflora）是冬青科冬青属的植物，为中国的特有植物。分布于中国大陆的香港等地，多生在低海拔的丛林中，目前已由人工引种栽培。