Ilex godajam Colebr.

Shrubs or trees, evergreen, 5-13 m tall; bark gray-white. Branchlets gray, zigzag, subterete, with rounded, raised lenticels and subcircular, raised leaf scars, glabrescent; current year’s young branchlets longitudinally striate, densely puberulent; terminal buds ovoid, small, poorly developed, densely puberulent or glabrous. Stipules subulate-deltoid, minute, puberulent; petiole 1-1.5 cm, puberulent, longitudinally sulcate adaxially; leaf blade abaxially greenish, adaxially green to deep green, shiny, ovate or oblong, 4.5-8 × 2.5-4 cm, thinly leathery, when young thinly papery, and puberulent on midvein and near base, glabrescent, midvein impressed adaxially, lateral veins 7-9 pairs, raised abaxially, distinct adaxially, anastomosing near margin, reticulate veins evident abaxially, indistinct adaxially, base rounded, margin entire, apex obtuse-rounded or shortly deltoid-acuminate. Inflorescences: cymes of order 2-5, umbelliform, solitary, axillary on current year’s branchlets, often appearing paniculate when shoot fails to develop; peduncles and pedicels densely puberulent; flowers white-yellow, 4-6-merous. Male inflorescences: cymes of order 4 or 5, 8-23-flowered; peduncles (1-)1.4-1.8 cm; pedicels 2-4 mm; bracteoles subulate, basal, puberulent; calyx patelliform, ca. 2.5 mm in diam., puberulent, deeply 4- or 5-lobed, lobes ovate, margin erose, ciliate; corolla rotate, petals 4, oblong, ca. 2 mm, basally slightly connate; stamens ca. as long as petals, anthers ovoid; rudimentary ovary globose, rostellate. Female inflorescences: cymes of order 2-4, 3-13-flowered; peduncles 1-1.4 cm; bracts basal, deltoid, densely puberulent; pedicels 2-5 mm; bracteoles basal, deltoid; calyx as in male flowers; petals elliptic, ca. 2 mm; staminodes not seen; ovary ovoid, stigma capitate. Fruit red, globose, ca. 4 mm in diam.; persistent calyx explanate, ca. 2.5 mm in diam., ciliate; persistent stigma discoid, convex; pyrenes 5 or 6, ellipsoidal, 2-2.5 mm, ca. 1.5 mm in diam., abaxially 3-striate and 2-sulcate, endocarp woody. Fl. Jan, Apr-May, fr. May, Aug-Sep. 2n = 40*.

E. Himalaya (Nepal, Sikkim), Assam, N. Indo-China, W. & S. China.

Guangxi, Hainan, Hunan, Yunnan [Bhutan, NE India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, N Vietnam].

250-600 m

Sparse forests, thickets on mountain slopes; 300-1000 m.

Prinos godajam Colebrooke in Wallich, Pl. Asiat. Rar. 3: 38. 1832; Ilex capitellata Pierre; I. godajam f. capitellata (Pierre) Loesener; I. rotunda Thunberg var. piligera Loesener.

Ilex godajam là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Aquifoliaceae. Loài này được Colebr. ex Hook.f. mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1875.

伞花冬青（学名：Ilex godajam）是冬青科冬青属的植物。分布在越南、印度以及中国大陆的海南、云南、湖南、广西等地，生长于海拔300米至1,000米的地区，多生在山坡疏林以及杂木林中，目前已由人工引种栽培。