Ilex suaveolens (H. Lév.) Loes.

Trees evergreen, 7-15 m tall. Young branchlets brown, angular, glabrous throughout; older branchlets subterete; lenticels raised, elliptic. Petiole 1.5-2 cm, winged; leaf blade olivaceous when dry, ovate or elliptic, 5-6.5(-10) × 2-2.5(-4) cm, leathery, both surfaces glabrous, midvein raised on both surfaces, lateral veins 8-10 pairs, slightly raised on both surfaces, reticulate veins ± evident on both surfaces, base broadly cuneate, decurrent, margin sparsely and minutely crenate, slightly incurved, apex acuminate, acumen triangular. Flowers not known. Infructescences: cymes of order 2 or 3, solitary, axillary, 3-7-fruited, sometimes umbelliform; peduncles (1-)1.5-2 cm, angular, glabrous; fruiting pedicels 5-8 mm, glabrous. Fruit red, narrowly globose, ca. 9 mm, ca. 6 mm in diam.; persistent calyx ca. 2 mm in diam., 5-lobed, lobes broadly triangular, not ciliate; persistent stigma mammilliform; pyrenes 4, oblong, ca. 8 mm, ca. 3 mm in diam., endocarp stony. Fl. Jun, fr. unknown.

S Anhui (Huang Shan), Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang.

● Evergreen broad-leaved forests; 600-1600 m.

Celastrus suaveolens H. Léveillé, Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 13: 263. 1914; Ilex debaoensis C. J. Tseng.

Ilex suaveolens là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Aquifoliaceae. Loài này được (H. Lév.) Loes. mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1914.

香冬青（学名：Ilex suaveolens）是冬青科冬青属的植物，为中国的特有植物。分布在中国大陆的四川、广西、湖南、广东、云南、安徽、浙江、福建 、江西等地，生长于海拔600米至1,600米的地区，见于常绿阔叶林中，目前已由人工引种栽培。