Ilex memecylifolia Champ. ex Benth.

Trees evergreen, 15-20 m tall, rarely shrubs, ca. 2 m tall. Young branchlets slender, longitudinally angular and sulcate, very shortly puberulent; third year’s branchlets gray, smooth; lenticels absent; leaf scars raised, semicircular; terminal buds ovoid, puberulent. Stipules persistent, deltoid, minute; petiole 5-7 mm, abaxially rounded, adaxially narrowly sulcate, puberulent; leaf blade abaxially greenish, adaxially deep green, shiny or not, ovate-oblong or obovate, 4-8.5 × 1.2-3.3 cm, leathery to thickly leathery, both surfaces glabrous, midvein impressed adaxially, lateral veins 5 or 6 pairs, and reticulate veins obscure on both surfaces, base cuneate or obtuse, margin entire, apex acuminate or obtuse. Inflorescences: cymes, fasciculate, axillary on second year’s branchlets, often with a dormant bud; flowers white, fragrant, 4- or 5-merous. Male inflorescences: cymes of order 1 or 2, 1-3-flowered; peduncles 1-3 mm; bracts deltoid, puberulent; pedicels 3-6 mm, puberulent; bracteoles 2, basal or subbasal, or absent; calyx patelliform, ca. 2 mm in diam., lobes 5 or 6, deltoid, margin erose, apex obtuse, ciliate; corolla rotate, 5-6 mm in diam., petals 4 or 5, oblong, basally slightly connate; stamens ca. as long as petals, anthers ovoid; rudimentary ovary subglobose. Female inflorescences: 1-flowered cymes; pedicels 6-8 mm, puberulent; bracteoles 1 or 2, basal, puberulent; calyx and corolla as in male flowers; staminodes ca. 3/4 as long as petals, sterile anthers and filaments puberulent; ovary subovoid, 1.5-2 mm in diam., style evident, ca. 1 mm, stigma capitate. Fruit red, globose, 5-6 mm in diam.; fruiting pedicel 6-8(-10) mm, puberulent; persistent calyx explanate, ca. 3 mm in diam.; persistent stigma columnar, ca. 1 mm; pyrenes 4 or 5, ellipsoidal-oblong, 4-5 mm, ca. 2 mm in diam., reticulately striate, endocarp leathery, rugose, hairy. Fl. Mar-Apr, fr. Jul-Dec.

Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Jiangxi [N Vietnam].

Dense forests, sparse forests, mixed forests, shrubby areas, roadsides; 300-600 m.

Ilex memecylifolia var. oblongifolia Champion ex Bentham.

Ilex memecylifolia là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Aquifoliaceae. Loài này được Champ. ex Benth. mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1852.

谷木叶冬青（学名：Ilex memecylifolia）为冬青科冬青属的植物。分布于越南以及中国大陆的江西、香港、广东、福建、贵州、广西等地，生长于海拔300米至600米的地区，常生于疏林、杂木林中、山坡密林、灌丛中或路边，目前已由人工引种栽培。