Ilex subficoidea S. Y. Hu

Trees evergreen, 8-15 m tall. Branchlets terete, longitudinally ridged, glabrous, with deltoid or ovate leaf scars, lenticels absent. Leaves on first to second year’s branchlets; petiole 5-12 mm, adaxially sulcate, narrowly distally winged; leaf blade adaxially green, shiny, ovate or oblong-elliptic, 5-12 × 2-3 cm, leathery, both surfaces glabrous, midvein impressed adaxially, lateral veins 10 or 11 pairs, raised abaxially, obscure adaxially, reticulate veins obscure on both surfaces, base obtuse, rarely rounded, margin undulate and obtusely serrate, slightly revolute, apex abruptly acuminate. Inflorescences: cymes, fasciculate, axillary on second year’s branchlets; flowers white, 4-merous. Male inflorescences: cymes of order 2, 3-flowered; bracts broadly ovate, ciliate, basal appendages stipulelike; peduncles ca. 1 mm; pedicels ca. 2 mm, pubescent or glabrescent; calyx patelliform, ca. 5 mm in diam., lobes sparsely ciliate; corolla 6-7 mm in diam., petals 4, obovate-oblong, ca. 3 mm, sparsely ciliate, basally connate; stamens slightly longer than petals, anthers ovoid, ca. 0.75 mm; rudimentary ovary conical, apex obtuse. Female flowers not known. Infructescences: 1-fruited cymes; fruiting pedicels ca. 1 cm; bracteoles 2, basal or subbasal. Fruit globose, 1-1.2 cm in diam., densely tuberculate; persistent calyx 2.5-3 mm in diam., 4-lobed, lobes orbicular, ciliate; persistent stigma thinly discoid, 4-lobed; pyrenes 4, ovoid-ellipsoidal, 8-9 mm, 5-7 mm in diam., irregularly rugose and pitted, endocarp stony. Fl. Jan-May, fr. Jun-Dec.

Fujian (Nanjing), Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, S Hunan (Yizhang), Jiangxi (Quannan) [N Vietnam].

Mixed forests, hills; 400-1400 m.

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

拟榕叶冬青（学名：Ilex subficoidea）为冬青科冬青属的植物。分布于越南以及中国大陆的福建、湖南、海南、广西、江西、广东等地，生长于海拔500米至1,350米的地区，一般生长在山地混交林中，目前已由人工引种栽培。