Ilex championii Loes.

Shrubs or trees, evergreen, 8-13(-15) m tall; bark gray-white or gray-brown. Young branchlets purple-brown, longitudinally ridged and sulcate, puberulent; older branchlets brown, subterete, slightly puberulent or glabrescent, longitudinally fissured; lenticels absent; terminal buds conical, puberulent, apically acute. Stipules persistent, deltoid, ca. 1 mm; petiole 4-5 mm, sulcate, sparsely minutely puberulent; leaf blade abaxially greenish, adaxially green, shiny, ovate or obovate, rarely obovate-elliptic, 2-4 × 1.5-2.5 cm, leathery, abaxially deeply colored punctate, both surfaces glabrous, midvein slightly raised or flat on both surfaces, lateral veins 8-10 pairs, evident abaxially, obscure adaxially, reticulate veins sometimes evident abaxially, base obtuse, margin entire, apex retuse or emarginate, or shortly and abruptly acuminate. Inflorescences: cymes, fasciculate, axillary on first to second year’s branchlets. Male inflorescences: cymes of order 1 or 2, 1-3-flowered, puberulent; bracts deltoid, puberulent; peduncles 1-1.5 mm; pedicels 0.5-1 mm; bracteoles 1, basal, or absent; flowers white, 4-merous; calyx patelliform, ca. 1.8 mm in diam., puberulent, deeply 4-lobed, lobes orbicular, ciliate; corolla rotate, ca. 4 mm in diam., petals oblong-ovate, basally slightly connate; stamens shorter than petals, anthers oblong; rudimentary ovary pulvinate, rostellate. Female flowers not known. Infructescences: 1-fruited cymes, few fascicled; fruiting pedicels 1.5-2 mm, puberulent, bracteoles 2, basal or median. Fruit red, compressed globose, 3-4 mm in diam.; persistent calyx explanate, subquadrangular, puberulent, 4-lobed, lobes ovate, ciliate; persistent stigma discoid, convex; pyrenes 4, ellipsoidal-obovoid, ca. 3.5 mm, ca. 1.5 mm in diam., abaxially slightly raised 3-striate, not sulcate, smooth, endocarp leathery. Fl. Jun-Jul, fr. Aug-Nov.

Fujian (Liancheng), Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, S Hunan (Yizhang), Jiangxi.

● Dense forests, valleys; 600-1900 m.

Ilex memecylifolia Champion ex Bentham var. nummularia Champion ex Bentham.

Ilex championii là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Aquifoliaceae. Loài này được Loes. mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1901.

凹叶冬青（学名：Ilex championii）是冬青科冬青属的植物，为中国的特有植物。分布在中国大陆的贵州、湖南、福建、广西、广东、香港、江西等地，生长于海拔600米至1,600米的地区，常生于山谷密林中，目前尚未由人工引种栽培。