Ilex dunniana H. Lév.

Trees evergreen, 2-10 m tall. Branchlets brown, longitudinally ridged and sulcate, glabrous or slightly puberulent near apex; terminal buds conical, glabrous, current year’s branchlets with lenticels often coalescent, second and third year’s branchlets without lenticels. Petiole 8-10 mm, abaxially transversely rugose, adaxially longitudinally sulcate, glabrous or slightly puberulent; leaf blade green, broadly elliptic to lanceolate, 8-13 × 2.5-7 cm, thickly leathery, both surfaces glabrous, midvein impressed, and glabrous or slightly minutely puberulent adaxially, lateral veins 8-10 pairs, raised on both surfaces, branching and anastomosing near base, reticulate veins obscure on both surfaces, base obtuse or cuneate, margin densely sharply serrate, teeth black, apex acuminate, acumen 6-12 mm. Inflorescences: cymes, fasciculate, pseudopaniculate, or pseudoracemose, axillary on current year’s branchlets. Male inflorescences: cymes of order 1 or 2, 1-3-flowered, fasciculate, or pseudopaniculate; rachis 4-7 mm; peduncles 1-2 mm; pedicels 2-3 mm, glabrous or puberulent; bracteoles 2, basal; flowers green, 4-merous; calyx patelliform, deeply 4-lobed, lobes ovate-deltoid, not ciliate; corolla rotate, petals 4, oblong, ca. 3 × 2 mm, basally slightly connate; stamens ca. as long as petals, anthers ovoid-oblong; rudimentary ovary subglobose, apex obtuse or minutely depressed. Female inflorescences: 1-flowered cymes, pseudoracemose, axillary; pedicels 3-4 mm, glabrous or puberulent; bracteoles 2, basal; calyx as in male flowers; petals ovate-oblong, 2-2.5 × ca. 1.5 mm; staminodes ca. 3/4 as long as petals, sterile anthers ovoid-sagittate; ovary subglobose, stigma discoid, 4-lobed. Infructescences: rachis 5-10 mm thick; fruiting pedicels ca. 5 mm; persistent bracteoles 2, subbasal. Fruit red, depressed globose, 4-5 mm in diam., minutely tuberculate; persistent calyx explanate; persistent stigma thickly discoid, evidently 4-lobed; pyrenes 4, ovoid-trigonous, ca. 2.5 mm, ca. 2 mm in diam., abaxially irregularly reticulately striate, rugose, endocarp stony. Fl. Apr-Jun, fr. Aug-Oct.

E Guizhou, W Hubei, SW Sichuan, NE Yunnan.

● Broad-leaved forests, thickets, slopes; 700-2200 m.

Ilex chieniana S. Y. Hu; I. fangii (Rehder) S. Y. Hu; I. intermedia Loesener var. fangii (Rehder) S. Y. Hu; I. latifolia Thunberg var. fangii Rehder.

Ilex dunniana là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Aquifoliaceae. Loài này được H. Lév. mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1911.

龙里冬青（学名：Ilex dunniana）是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、湖北、四川等地，生长于海拔1,200米至2,200米的地区，多生长在山坡阔叶林或杂木林中，目前尚未由人工引种栽培。