Ilex chamaebuxus C. Y. Wu ex Y. R. Li

Trees evergreen, small, ca. 3 m tall. Branchlets gray-brown, terete, longitudinally angular and sulcate, densely puberulent; older branchlets longitudinally fissured, with raised, semicircular leaf scars, glabrescent; terminal buds conical, densely puberulent. Petiole 2-4 mm, abaxially glabrous, adaxially puberulent and shallowly sulcate; leaf blade abaxially greenish, adaxially green and opaque, obovate, 1-1.8 × 0.6-1.2 cm, thickly leathery, abaxially glabrous, adaxially glabrous except on midvein, midvein slightly raised abaxially, impressed and puberulent adaxially, lateral veins inconspicuous on both surfaces, reticulate veins obsolete on both surfaces, base obtuse or broadly cuneate, margin recurved, entire, apex cordate, retuse. Male inflorescences: cymes of order 1 or 2, 1-3-flowered, fasciculate, axillary on second year’s branchlets; peduncles 2-3 mm; pedicels 0.5-1.5 mm, puberulent; bracteoles 1 or 2, basal, ovate- deltoid, densely puberulent, ciliate; flowers white, 4-merous; calyx patelliform, ca. 1.5 mm in diam., puberulent, 4(or 5)-lobed, lobes broadly ovate, ciliate; corolla rotate, ca. 3 mm in diam., petals elliptic, ca. 2 × 1.5 mm, basally slightly connate; stamens ca. 3/4 as long as petals, anthers oblong; rudimentary ovary globose, ca. 0.7 mm in diam., apex flat. Female flowers and fruit not known. Fl. May, fr. unknown.

SE Yunnan (Malipo, Xichou).

● Forests on limestone mountains; ca. 1100 m.

Ilex chamaebuxus là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Aquifoliaceae. Loài này được C.Y. Wu mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1985.

矮杨梅冬青（学名：Ilex chamaebuxus）为冬青科冬青属的植物，是中国的特有植物。分布于中国大陆的云南等地，生长于海拔1,100米的地区，一般生于石灰山林中，目前尚未由人工引种栽培。